Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vulgarity at the level of The Vixens has a polish that almost absolves it; literary standards are irrelevant to its high sheen and jet propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing field. The publishers neither conceal nor exploit this fact: their publicity refers to 31-year-old Frank Yerby as a man who taught English at Florida A. & M. College and Southern University, La., leaves it up to the reader to know that they are Negro colleges...
Toward the Mountains. Some of the pilgrims are slick city folk. Others are small townspeople with yellow incense bags slung over their shoulders with the characters chao shan ching hsiang-"toward the mountains to present incense...
Chiao (clever). "Clever" Chinese are slick at rendering the "outward formal likeness"; they know the "rules." As Old Master Ching Hao put it: "The skillful painter carves out and pieces together scraps of beauty...
Disquieting rumors eddied through the quiet corridors of slick, Hearst-owned Town & Country. There was talk of a staff shakeup, a new editor perhaps, and possibly a change in policy. Last week a fact filtered down from the seat of empire at San Simeon: the resignation of slight, bright Editor Henry Adsit Bull, 42, had been accepted, "with reluctance...
Never a prodigy, Andrew had gradually learned to hit off the look of what he saw without apparent effort. Now his technique has become as unobtrusively slick as that of Surrealist René Magritte (see above). And for an age when storytelling in paint is frowned on even by academicians, Andrew's pictures are suitably storyless. His sharply sunlit Afternoon (on exhibition with 17 other of his paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last week) looks as pleasant, and as posed, as a vacation snapshot...