Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earle mentioned the growth of courses in existentialism in other American universities. Yale and Michigan, in addition to his own Northwestern, have added it to their curricula. "It's penetrating, because students are interested in it," he explained. "No doubt Sartre will be stale also in a hundred years or so, but he is very provocative...
...right, here's the bit; we've got a client with about ten refrigerated warehouses full of pork sausages. He can't ship them overseas now that the waterfront's tied up, and it looks like the whole bloody mess is going to go stale if we can't sell them right here. This is a tough town to sell pork sausages in. We are bucking years of tradition. What...
...received the generations. Young men coming out of curiosity, out of need, out of cynicism; shuffling and strutting; some of great intelligence and some of little will. And they have left the drawing room essentially the same as they entered it. It was only an interlude. Polite talk and stale crumpets and a few fleet glimpses of her gallery...
...contributors to Variety's review, only the network brass sounds satisfied. "I have read about how the next season's television schedules will be 'stale and pedestrian,' " says NBC President Robert Kintner. "If by these words the critics mean that programs that the public likes will return to television, then the schedules will be stale and pedestrian...
...have never known a period in television when all three networks were more receptive to considerations of new programing ideas . . . However, as a former reporter, I can testify that no matter what the networks do next season, it makes bigger headlines to report that the programing is 'stale and pedestrian' and that business is not too good...