Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city in which he was born. There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...Author Weidman has grown older, but his sympathy for his fellow man has not increased noticeably with the years. A few of the 21 stories in this collection, written between 1939 and 1947, are slick magazine products with a happy ending, but the majority appeared first in the New Yorker and wear a kind of civilized brutality. Readers will miss the garlicky locale of his earlier books, but they will feel the sting of the old Weidman venom...
...They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...
...SLICK BUT NOT STREAMLINED (185 pp.)-John Betjeman-Doubleday...
John Betjeman, an Englishman with a Dutch name, is one of the pleasantest minor writers in the world. This book, a selection of his verse and prose, introduces him to the U.S. public. Betjeman (pronounced Betch-man) is minor but not slick; he is, in a very light and quiet way, a serious poet. If laurel wreaths may be awarded for a variety of sane satires and affections, for blandness of style and an ear for delectable rhythms, Betjeman deserves at least a small...