Word: ruts
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...injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended martyrdom can totally obscure the indictment against a school program that places education on a political basis and stumbles along in a thirty-year-old rut...
After two in a row like "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" a theatrical team must face an awful temptation to dump whatever artistic ambition it ever had and roll on in its lucrative rut. Rodgers and Hammerstein have been so phenomenally successful on Broadway during the last few years that almost no one would have blamed them for letting their triumphs go Midas-like to their heads and for turning out a third musical with nothing new to add to the scope of its famous and profitable predecessors...
...months Hearst's Chicago Herald-American had dawdled along in a well-worn rut. Next to Bertie McCormick's Tribune, it had the biggest circulation in town and was holding it. But the Herald's news coverage had gone dull after the whoopdedoo of the Heirens murder case. Sex crimes got big headlines now & again, but the news lacked the red-and-saffron splashes of rich detail that had won the Herald its readers...
...standout of a not-too-brilliant show of "New Generation" art in London. He took the occasion to blast at what was wrong with British painting. Said he: "In Britain everything is so foul and filthy that artists either go crazy, become surrealist or get into a rut. The clockwork morality of Britain that one feels on a bus, the inhumanity, the rigidity-it's a wonder that anyone paints at all." British art "is all just inspired sketching. That's what the people want. It's not considered gentlemanly to have ideas, so even the best...
...Postmaster. But one era's highway is apt to be the next era's rut: Ben Hibbs found the magazine freighted with 8,500-word "short" stories, long "bootstrap" opuses on Men Who Made the Grade, a rather-be-right GOPolicy that wasn't confined to the editorial page, an audience that had grown old with Lorimer. Two weeks before Hibbs took over, the price went up to a dime. Hibbs and his 29-year-old managing editor, Robert Fuoss, set out to capture a younger audience with women in some of the seats. (Lorimer...