Word: triteness
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...named in the screen credits. Mayerling had a large number of cliches, even for a television play. The members of the huge cast were constantly called on to deliver such literary gems as, "Anything is possible if you really want it." And most of the situations were as trite as the lines. For instance, when the love-stricken Rudolph is supposed to be shown pursuing Maria, where do we find him? Kneeling behind her in church! Almost every situation in the show looked as though it had been used before, and most of them were, many in the recent movie...
Unlike its namesake and predecessor, the Yale version of Criterion has neither the polish nor the significance of Eliot's bauble. Unsophisticated, often trite, frequently ill-though-out, and almost never really original, it is still potentially one of the best things to happen to Yale since godandman departed...
...pace is occasionally revived by the music in such lively songs as the mock-eloquent "Jubilation T. Cornpone" and the snappy "What's Good for General Bullmoose." Few of the other songs, however, help. After an overture that is loud, fast, and trite the show includes several mediocre tunes and one or two ugly, sentimental mistakes...
...Phrasemaker Stevenson, the phrase was trite, but it was true. On that morning last March the political figure of Adlai Stevenson, hit hard in Minnesota by Estes Kefauver, was lying flat on the canvas, and the count was almost up to ten. Many a knowing politician and political reporter thought that Candidate Stevenson might never get up. But he did, and the fight that he began that day turned into a dramatic political comeback. Last week, with a decisive victory in California's Democratic presidential primary, won after a hard fight, Stevenson was once again the front-runner...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...