Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero . . . Like many other persons suddenly thrust into the limelight, I rather thrived on the adulation and new-found popularity ... I began to embellish my speeches with more picturesque and fanciful incidents. I fell into a trap, which in part had been laid by my own glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto Hahn or any other German physicist ... I wish before my Heavenly Father that I might undo this wrong." Stringfellow offered to withdraw from the election...
Brilliant & Bitter. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, 57, is an Indian who has lived more than half his life as an Englishman; a Western-trained intellectual who distrusts and hates the West; a passionate foe of old-style imperialism whose histrionic talents and glib tongue more often than not give aid to the new imperialism of Communism. He ostentatiously preaches humility and tolerance, but some of his colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile...
Because Arthur Tuckerman is a fairly good and very glib writer, his first novel will be on the best seller lists for many weeks. When the Old School Tie pretends to very little, it is an entertaining if innocuous comedy about an American boy in an English prep school, but when it hints at a dying generation, a dying Europe, and impending doom, the novel descends to unattractive superficiality...
...Chinese Victory. In this easy bargaining climate. Chou seemed to have got all he wanted for the price of a bland Communist smile. He pitched a glib appeal for the leadership of Asia on the familiar "Asia for the Asians" theme, and the Indians cheered him. Chou made no concessions to Nehru. He reassured those who worry about Communist infiltration by declaring that "revolutions cannot be exported." Perhaps Chou's greatest triumph was the size of India's welcome itself-the biggest accorded a foreigner since independence...
...brief, by espousing liberalism Holden makes conservation very attractive. He is so clean-cut that he is greasy. He is so sincere that he is glib. The friendship he shows for the factory workers stems from the overwhelming consideration that "Happy workers are efficient workers," not from any basic sympathy with others. Frederic March's evil comptroller seems the only honestly motivated person in the movie; Mr. Holden is just the ruthless comptroller with a Business School education. MICHAEL J. HALBERSTAM...