Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Raymond Chandler, 70, mystery novelist (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The Lady in the Lake), screen adapter (with Billy Wilder) of Double Indemnity, creator of glib, tough-talking Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting...
...would be impossible to capture Pather Panchali in a glib formula. Five human beings, from young Apu to Old Auntie, each sings his or her own eloquent "lament of the path." But the film is never depressing, for however great the sorrows, they face the path resolutely...
...authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans as for the Adams agnostics, then-as well as for all the peculiar intermediate species between--The Seventh Seal can serve as a needed tonic, by raising once again the religious question in all its jagged complexity: like Bergman's knight...
...Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, noting that Washington had long been skeptical of Humphrey, wrote of a reappraisal: "He has been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark...
Perhaps the finest singing of the program was heard in the familiar Coventry Carol, a delicate song, delicately phrased and shaped. It was followed by the service's only real lapse, a glib medley of old carols arranged by Gustav Holst called "Christmas Day." Such glossy potpourris might better be left to television...