Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bit of tomfoolery manages to be engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...
Despite administrative protests that the new three year requirements will not constitute a lowering of Harvard standards, it is fairly plain that the ruling is strictly an emergency measure. Trite as it may seem, much of a college education is contained not in the four courses plus tutorial per annum but rather in the life outside of classes. Twenty years out of college, so our elders tell us, one is more likely to remember riots than lectures, and friends than textbooks. Not only will the new regulations cut down the period of college life by almost a full year...
...Wolf," which heads the double bill at the U.T., is neither a great picture, as it tries to be, nor as trite as it very well might be. It is the most recent of a long series of adaptations from Jack London's novels, all of which have been good blood-and-thunder pictures, but none of which have been able to rise above the essentially hackneyed character of the plot...