Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainland tae hilch himsel' a wife. He haes his courtin' orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance, in a' this clishmaclaver, o' Frank Launder an' Sidney Gilliat, the same glib-gabbit couple o' callans as made Wee Geordie (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956) sic a rantin' raible o' sculdudd...
...Editor Richard Seamon, wrote this week's cover story on Actress Anne Bancroft, has written at least 14 other covers on subjects as dissimilar as Air Force Space Physician John Paul Stapp (MEDICINE, Sept. 12, 1955), Yankee Orator Casey Stengel (SPORT, Oct. 3, 1955), and TV's glib-jib Private Eyes (Snow BUSINESS, Oct. 26). On TIME since 1951, he has contributed to almost every section of the magazine, handled the Sport section for three years (1955-58), and helped inaugurate the Show Business section with a cover story on Jack Paar (Aug. 18, 1958). Dick Seamon demonstrates...
...amount of campaign window dressing," Collins lashed out, "no amount of political endorsement by respectable names--who themselves may have been misled or incompletely informed--no amount of glib talk by college professors as advisers, and no amount of pretense can alter to any degree, or for a single moment, the true nature of a candidate's background...
...dismal Cabazon as a promised land. He bought a dilapidated parcel of land, divided it into lots, became publisher of the local weekly and president of the Chamber of Commerce. Then he waited. In 1954 came the sort of man that Tallent had been waiting for: Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will fall from heaven...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...