Word: glib
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Unlike his predecessor, glib, huckster-handed William Benton, George Allen* is quiet and undramatic. But he is no softie. In Iran, he not only acquired a thorough, first-hand knowledge of U.S.S.R. pressure techniques, but demonstrated firmness in dealing with them...
...lecturer, sleek-haired, glib Philosophy Professor V. N. Kolbanovsky, said: "Ugly psychological leftovers of bourgeois ideology concerning marriage and love still exist here. . . . Bourgeois marriages are business marriages where love gets dirtied and trampled. ... In bourgeois countries the working girl, in order to get and hold a job, often has to pass through the boss's bed. ... In the bourgeois state children are not wanted in great numbers...
...Harvard student of the Class of 1948, goes ahead merrily and analyzes "Religion at Radcliffe," dividing everyone into four types, the most interesting of which is the "fast-moving social clique," where "religion is conspicuous by its absence." Nancy Sadler's article is more intelligent but no less glib in its assumptions; but far from being an analysis, it is a plea for religion that involves the setting up of her own psycho-philosophical system...
Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...
...recognition, rather than the shock of surprise. More forcibly than anyone in his age, Gandhi had asserted that love was the law; how else should he die but through hatred? He had feared machines in the hands of men not wise enough to use them, had warned against the glib, the new, the plausible; how else should he die, but by a pistol in the hands of a young intellectual...