Word: glib
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Cramer knows his stuff, there is no doubt about that. He was able to supplement the text when I evidenced ignorance of some particular reference, and he showed a glib familiarity with treaty dates, foreign phrases, and the like...
...dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...
...soon as it arrive-in a studio. With a single print, a television network can reach its full audience; the competitor newsreel company must make prints for each of its subscribing theaters. Background music and sound-track commentary consume time and money in newsreel production; with television, a glib announcer and a handful of records can go directly...
...past years, CRIMSON business representatives, (those glib fellows), have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of Brylereem, without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, a chance for Freshmen and Sophomores with latent extroversial qualities to develop them to the fullest, under the personal tutelage of the fastest talking pin-stripes in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening tonight offers everyone a gift of the gab which can come in handy along other lines, 'He said, than journalistic ones...
...anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...