Word: trite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...host's elaborate system of interior fountains and waterways; Sellers drifting from group to group, making inscrutable attempts at conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
...sounds too trite to be true. Little old lady meets polite young policeman; polite young policeman befriends little old lady; little old lady leaves entire estate to polite young policeman. And who does the little old lady turn out to be? Why, none other than one of the heiresses to Texas' fabulous King Ranch, worth millions...
...good plot. Well-done, it could have been another Morgan: hilarious, terribly sad, and needling us with the not-too-trite suggestion that lunatics may be the only sane ones after all. Poorly done, and King of Hearts was poorly done, it leaves only a sense of disappointment, of lost opportunity...
...vehicles guided by supposedly intelligent beings, the UFOs have exhibited remarkably ineffective and capricious behavior. Instead of concentrating around obvious examples of intelligent life on earth, such as large cities, they have been seen most often above deserts, farms and backwater towns. Their only reported communication has consisted of trite exchanges ("Don't be afraid") with relatively simple citizens or outright fanatics. But saucer buffs point out that man has studied the behavior of bees and learned their social order and "language" without even attempting to communicate directly with them...
...first and last days of World War II, is technically no more demanding than a run-of-the-mill yarn in the old Saturday Evening Post, but the reader follows BÖll's hero willingly. Although the psychology is unsubtle and the theme not far from trite, BÖll deals in reality...