Word: copycats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copycat. He was fascinated by the main architectural attraction-a sleek geodesic dome of gold-coated aluminum panels, 200 feet in diameter, abuilding at one end of the site. "This dome is really something," he chuckled again and again. He posed for pictures with some Italian workmen employed on the project, and called to Thompson: "Come and join me. After all, the Italians are your allies...
...Coast TV Writer Carroll Carroll, one Variety contributor, is not half so serious as the shortage of talent. "There is not enough creative brainpower alive today to keep the TV monster intelligently or even satisfactorily nourished. The result is that TV has become the world's No. 1 copycat." Most of the new programs are merely duplicates of shows that had good ratings last year-notably quizzes (see above...
...centuries "Mannerism" has been a dirty word in the art historian's book, meaning "in the manner of" -or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the painters who, in the century from 1520 to 1,620, tried to ape the much-admired manner of Michelangelo and Raphael, but, in missing the essence, turned out clumsy, valueless paintings. But art critics are now making an abrupt about-face. The long-despised Mannerists have at last been rescued from the dustbin and brushed off, to become Europe's latest vogue...
Poet Louis (The Outer Land) Grudin is to James Joyce what dozens of novelists have been to Hemingway and Proust-an eager copycat who asserts his right to look at his king, even if it leaves him crosseyed. Joyce showed how multiple ideas and emotions get tangled together in the human mind, and how the mention of one thing suggests other quite different things which happen to be "associated," through the sound and look of words...
Sixty years later the copycat framers of the Texas Declaration of Independence got cold feet and inserted in that document a statement to the effect that "Nations are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind...