Word: slick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick and often incompetent student-elected representatives, and to get more capable men in the student government...
...evidence that even at 26, Rembrandt was well embarked on the style and subject matter that led to his late great style. Says Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich: "St. Bartholomew was done just before Rembrandt entered into his early success in Amsterdam and began to turn out rather slick, social portraits. Its deep, inner power foretells the late, introspective Rembrandts-an interesting link between his youth and old age when he painted some of his greatest works...
...brusque and businesslike, Persons is completely amiable, can always find time for the human touch. Where Adams-by virtue of his four years in the New Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General Wilton Persons, U.S.A...
...consider it his job to label something good or bad; he is describing, not judging. Thus for the insider, his article will be amusing but not stimulating, a coverage, not a critique. Though it seems more could have been done in evaluating Harvard, Boroff's article provides a slick tapestry of our "well-mannered colossus...
...pitchmen-the Madison Avenue mills that turn out commercials, as well as the Hollywood moguls who create new stars. While TIME'S regular THEATER and CINEMA sections will continue to review new plays and movies, SHOW BUSINESS will report the news of big and little theaters, of slick Broadway productions and progressive university workshops, will range from the facts of financial life to a poet-playwright's latest experiment, from Tin Pan Alley's latest ditty to a nightclub comedian's newest routine. For the new section's first effort, see this week...