Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...
...Glib Proposals." Dewey's speeches followed a familiar pattern. He concentrated on belaboring "this incredible Administration of ours," on warning: "Let's be sure we spend our money like hard-headed Americans instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial...
...Beware again the false prophets; for there dwelleth in the land an old soothsayer in the place of the Merle, and his name is called Bill; and he is wondrous glib with his tongue unto the hour of Post Time...
...lecturer, sleek-haired, glib Philosophy Professor V. N. Kolbanovsky, said: "Ugly psychological leftovers of bourgeois ideology concerning marriage and love still exist here. . . . Bourgeois marriages are business marriages where love gets dirtied and trampled. ... In bourgeois countries the working girl, in order to get and hold a job, often has to pass through the boss's bed. ... In the bourgeois state children are not wanted in great numbers...
...Harvard student of the Class of 1948, goes ahead merrily and analyzes "Religion at Radcliffe," dividing everyone into four types, the most interesting of which is the "fast-moving social clique," where "religion is conspicuous by its absence." Nancy Sadler's article is more intelligent but no less glib in its assumptions; but far from being an analysis, it is a plea for religion that involves the setting up of her own psycho-philosophical system...