Word: glib
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...Koestler observes in his new book of essays-see BOOKS: ". . . that those particular Germans committed those particular crimes was proved by no other evidence than their own confession.") And the extraordinarily full, frank admissions of the accused Germans are even more mystifying, to a Western mind, than the equally glib confessions of the Russians accused, some years ago, in the Moscow purge trials...
...thing the News forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph...
...Glib, handsome Arthur Lowler Osborn Fountaine Bell toiled mightily during his early years in California. He founded a profitable cult called "Mankind United," labeled himself "The Voice" and announced that he had seven doubles all capable of thinking as one. He denounced capitalism, quoted the scriptures feverishly, soon claimed 250,000 followers...
Common Ground is not glib in its affirmation of democratic faith. But it is too wordy and preachy. Under the sentimental pressure of its death-v.-dishonor plot, its tough, realistic tone slowly melts away. Anger rather than ardor makes Playwright Chodorov vibrant. His highly charged first act really gets under your skin. Thereafter, Common Ground strikes forcibly only upon...
...dozen years, suave, fox-faced John J. Anthony has been dishing out glib, categorical advice-by-radio to people with tough personal problems. (Sample Anthonyism: "[I] have found that marriage as an institution is probably the most desirable human association.") Last week, Mr. Anthony had a tough professional problem...