Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Down the Baggage. Springtime in Paris is a glib, sentimental report which tells a lot more than its uncompromisingly Francophile author intended. Just as The Last Time unwittingly exposed some of the political and social degeneracy that helped France to her downfall, so Springtime airily touches on contemporary blotches of decay that might be just as deadly...
...Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...
...running a deficit of $5.5 billion a year? Last week, glib Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave his answer. The Administration's policy of spending more than it earns is no accident, said Keyserling. The Administration planned it that way in order to stave off a recession which "might have turned into something . . . serious...
...President that there was nothing to worry about in the staggering $255 billion national debt. He could find fair-sounding reasons for supporting Harry Truman's threat to break into the steel industry with Government-run plants, reasons why the President should demand new curbs over business. Such glib reasoning was too much for Dr. Nourse, but judging from last week's appointment, it was just right with Mr. Truman. Businessmen, whom Keyserling recently had been trying to win over by soft words, kept their fingers crossed when they heard that he had succeeded Nourse. To them...
Standen's book contains enough firecrackers to keep faculty-club lunches popping for weeks. Chemist Standen could expect few cheers from his fellow scientists ; even the professor of Greek might find him too glib to be taken straight. But for scientists or laymen inclined to speak of science in both holy and fearful tones, Standen's prescription might be a good little relaxer...