Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...those clichés: "bounding score," "tone of pure gold," "polished performance...
...began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...
Poet Viereck first noticed how common the new Babbittry had become when he returned to teach history at Harvard after World War II. "Philistinism," he realized, "had acquired a new content, a new set of conditioned reflexes. It was still mongering clichés, but the clichés had changed . . . The main activity of the new-style Philistine has become the facile game of philistine-baiting...