Word: glib
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...panicky fear of failure. In a series of skillfully managed flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids led him. As the comic, MC Hal March of The $64,000 Question gave a fine performance. Unfortunately, Tully's salvation, i.e., the love of a good woman, is almost as glib as his wisecracks. But thanks to Author Aurthur's grip on the character, the problem and the jangling atmosphere, TV's own version of a tired old theatrical and movie staple-the backstage story-proves in this case to have freshness and bite...
...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and posibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...
...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and possibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...
...process which he cannot readily attain through lectures and text-books. It can require him to articu-late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light. Such self-testing...
When the U.S. woke up after the election with a ticket-splitting headache, many politicians and most pundits agreed with the hasty diagnosis of Fair-Dealing Columnist Thomas Stokes: "The personal victory of President Eisenhower dramatizes, by contrast, the increasing weakness of his party." This was a glib, convenient way of talking about Democratic congressional victories against the Eisenhower avalanche. But it was also a superficial and misleading explanation of an election that carried a deeper and vastly more significant meaning...