Word: triteness
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...along with keeping an undistorted view of foreign policy, is the issue of political freedom for Communists at home. To out law the Communist Party, denying its members freedom of political activity, would be to demonstrate the weaknesses the Communists charge us with. Until, to use the trite but indispensable phrase, a clear and present danger to our Nation can be shown, it is better to let Communists have their say; if our system is as sound as we believe, it can withstand any debate or criticism. Just as red-baiting is an admission of weakness and frustration at home...
...libretto, his 30-minute Telephone is little more than a trite gag. (An impatient lover tries to propose to his girl, is repeatedly interrupted when her phone rings; finally dashes to the corner drugstore, calls her up himself and makes the grade.) But the music is a briskly running satirical commentary that requires only a 13-piece orchestra to play it, and one soprano and one baritone to sing it. College and small-town music groups could tackle it easily-musically or financially...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...
...course, there are such recognized horrors as soap operas and trite commercials. And singing commercials! Really, it hasn't been proved to me that anybody listens to them. But the most conspicuous lack in your broadcasting isn't appreciated here at all. You all seem to console yourselves that, with all its faults, American radio is far ahead of anybody else in broadcasting techniques. That's absurd...
Over the head of every sponsored radio show hangs a heavy threat: its Hooperating.* If the rating is too low, the sponsor usually cancels the show. Results: 1) new shows, which take time to win an audience, often die aborning; 2) U.S. radio is encouraged to stick to the trite and truistic; 3) the Hooper system has more influence than friends among radio show folk...