Word: glib
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...education course would make advanced placement itself more appealing to the incoming freshman and the Harvard prospect in secondary school. At present, unless the student has three advanced placement courses, his credits do him little good. He can, supposedly, take courses not regularly open to freshmen, but with a glib tongue he can talk his way into many upperclass courses anyway. Advanced placement also makes later course reduction easier, according to the Advanced Standing Office; however, the qualified and responsible student can often get course reduction without previous advanced placement...
...shout or become vituperative; he was not "pursuing this subject in a spirit of cold war"; he argued that "we do not condemn the doer but the deed." And the reason the subject was introduced again was that Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has kept none of the glib promises he made after Soviet tanks crushed the revolt last November. Soviet troops have not been withdrawn; nor has the promise of no reprisals been honored. From incontrovertible Hungarian Communist sources-their radios and newspapers-Lodge submitted the names of 1,768 Hungarians punished by the regime, including 23 executions...
...exercise room or into the sauna (Finnish bath), where Philosopher Adler last week led a lively argument on justice and charity in 175° heat. Only occasionally do discussions get hotter: one chairman of a large corporation threatened to pull his money out of a bank represented by a glib young vice president who differed with him in a discussion of the profit motive...
...Biblical story of Exodus paralleled his indignation at growing Naziism in Germany, his brooding about the Jews' new exodus. The opera's first and third acts are dominated by a philosophical dialogue between Moses and Aaron; Moses only speaks his part-a sign that, unlike the, glib, singing Aaron, the word fails him. Schoenberg etches the contrast between the hard but true faith of Moses and Aaron's emotional, almost political search for a human god-figure...
Music for Lighthousekeeping (Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars; Contemporary). Volume 8 in this West Coast series is marked by playing of piano-string tautness and vibrating energy. Bob Cooper is a glib, honey-mouthed talker on the tenor...