Word: glib
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...more serene world of 1923. We still believe that the concept of purely "objective" reporting is not only unattainable but unrealistic. The editors of TIME have always set themselves a more workable goal: fairness, and a constant effort to blend the news into its own background. And while avoiding glib predictions of the future, TIME seeks to present the news in a way that will give its readers an intelligent estimate of what the future is likely to bring...
...movie's handling of child behavior, though too glib and sometimes doubtful, is unusually sound for a Hollywood film, fairly free of obvious tearjerking, and shrewdly balanced with comedy. Deft writing and acting freshen even so ancient a running gag as the one about the married couple forever thwarted from going to bed together. As knowing in audience psychology as in child psychology, Room for One More rises above such lapses as treating an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with the solemnity of a coronation, or allowing the struggling, hard-pressed Roses to live in a house that...
...asked Marshall for information for his book nor has he spoken to anyone who has known Marshall. Says Payne: "I wanted to stay clear of the military mind." The result is that The Marshall Story also stays pretty clear of the inner Marshall, reads like what it is, a glib job of carpentry...
Like many such glib pieces of advertising, this one told a half perhaps three-quarter truth. But the returning Business student is lucky: he can look around him and see an example of the whole truth's best fraction. New buildings, product of cooperation between industry and scholar, are being constructed for example. The School's Advanced Management program has drawn its largest class-nearly 200 executives are having their way paid to Cambridge to study the 1951 means to 1951's goals...
...flip secretary) trails along, tossing garlands of Playwright Fay Kanin's bright dialogue and remnants of her original message. On Broadway, the heroine's controversial documentary was an antiwar film. In the Hollywood version, she sponsors a movie preaching academic freedom. As the scripters handle it, this glib switch-no doubt an expedient one-leaves the issue so vaguely generalized that, for all the picture's righteous pounding, it rings pretty hollow...