Word: glib
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...concession to the downtrodden, its belated permission for WHRB to broadcast football games. Everyone knows, however, that this is merely a delaying tactic. Midway through the season as the heard sit in their cups, quietly listening to the game, a rapacious snarl will interrupt their befogged meditations, and a glib WHRB will broadcast no more...
...courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany's booming postwar recovery? "When you start from zero, all progress seems imposing." His main recollection of Der Führer? Replied he: "Hitler was a betrayer and a madman, but he was a genius, as so many criminals are." Then the visitor...
...historical per spective, and a total absence of lecturing, hectoring or sentimentalizing. Luethy calls his book "an attempt to draw up an inventory of what has survived, and also of what has become ossified, in the France of the present day." Though his portentous paradoxes are far from glib, they face up to the impatiently reiterated de mand - what's the matter with France...
...Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, wondered publicly whether the U.S. is not getting too glib in talking about a "religious revival." The term is being "used too often, and too much is expected of it," he said to a church gathering in Omaha, Neb. "Too many of us have such great feelings about such little things. As in apostolic times, we will have to outlive, outthink and outdie the pagan world...
France's small shopkeepers and artisans pay only a 2.7% tax on their turnover. But any tax at all is an outrage perpetrated by "that government in Paris." By last week a glib, handsome young (34) bookseller named Pierre Poujade had organized this native outrage into a political nuisance called the "Union for the Defense of Commerce and Artisanry." Comes the Revenooer. In Rodez 4,000 UDCAers mobbed tax men trying to in spect the books of M. Salvan's pottery shop, and hustled collectors and their police escorts out of town. At Autun 700 Poujade vigilantes frightened...