Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a report on the Stockholm environmental conference, written well before the event, and an analysis of the Middle American, that citizen already so often discovered. Cleveland Ace and Goodman Amory-or is it Cleveland Amory and Goodman Ace?-grind out their stale SR humor...
...many of the individual participants, the conference was of little clear value. The forum sessions were showy and sterile to those few participants attending their first conclave, but they were just stale reruns, repeats of a sad situation comedy, to the conference veterans...
...many of the individual participants, the conference was of little clear value. The forum sessions were showy and sterile to those few participants attending their first conclave, but they were just stale reruns, repeats of a sad situation comedy, to the conference veterans...
...once found and entire box of Lyons tea-cakes--"and not touched, not even opened, mind you"--on her way to visit Kitty. She called Kitty over to attest to how good the tea-cakes had been, and Kitty bounded over smiling good-naturedly. "They were just a bit stale, but awfully good." she said. But an even greater find, the mother said, had been a lovely pair of men's leather gloves. She had no use for them: they didn't fit, but she was saving them in a smaller pile next to all the newspapers...
...ITALLIE is evidently the sort of fellow who goes around telling his friends that we must re-order our national priorities. Why he didn't leve his sentiments of social outrage back at the 1966 anti-war kaffeclatsch he found them at I'll never know. Unpleasant whiffs of stale liberal cliches, the tone of adolescent disillusionment are rusty barbs in otherwise imaginative scenes. Double-talking politicians, bullshitting psychiatrists, uncaring priests get their gratuitous going-over in an orgy of obviousness...