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...preparing to take another giant step in the plan to make the American citizen subservient to a regime. The "war on poverty" is obviously a vote-influencing scheme, another duplication of effort, another billion dollars for scattershot, another bureau to enlarge the federal payroll, another gimmick by a glib and slick-tongued politician. The chief cause of poverty is inflation, and after nearly three decades of "spending to create prosperity," inflationary policies are still predominant...
Serv-U is unusual in another sense as well. It is the one outfit in which so many of Baker's business associates are linked together. These include men like the glib Fred Black, under indictment for income tax evasion and, until he was fired last week, a top lobbyist paid by North American; Ernest Tucker, with whom Baker shares a Washington law office, and who has his finger in several Baker pies; Edward Levinson, the Las Vegas operator, and the mysterious Miamian, Benny Sigelbaum...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes...
Even though the average Harvard student reads a great deal, it is hard to say whether he reads well. Certainly the glib generalizations requested on most exams do not constitute a proper test. It can be said with more certainty, however, that the average Harvard student does not learn to write...
...excuse or two remains. The libretto was a translation from Menotti's Italian (but since his English is good enough to charm flowers into bloom, it is a puzzle why he put up with such a poor job). Menotti is simply not glib enough to be much of a humorist; he suffers a naiveté that is a virtue as well as a vice. He is a man who is truly touched by life. As his past masterworks nobly demonstrate, a passion for the world can be as much a blessing to the composer as in this case...