Word: glib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creative" are adjectives describing Bowles's own tentative solutions to the dilemma of foreign policy. For the Governor brings to a discussion of international affairs two ideas which have fallen into disrepute of late, and whose revival at this time makes them "dynamic" and "creative" in comparison to the glib panaceas currently in circulation...
...winter of 1920 Wolfe wrote his first play at Harvard, a one-act drama called The Mountains, which was produced for a special workshop audience the following fall. The Mountains was a raw, unpolished production, little resembling the glib drawing-room fare produced by other members of the workshop. It was a story of the Carolina mountain people, dirty and sordid, yet filled with the mystical and romantic eulogization of the "land" which became a trademark of Wolfe's later work. Criticism of the play was highly unfavorable, and Wolfe became despondent: "I will never forget the almost inconceivable anguish...
Frede's diagnosis may be accurate for a segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...
...least about book titles. But never before have the moviemakers so eagerly turned the bestseller lists into production schedules. Hollywood now has nearly 500 books in some stage of production. The man who is leading the book trend, galley proofs flying and reading glasses agleam, is a glib, moon-faced middleman of culture named Jerry Wald...
Washingtonians of the 1940s may recall Florida's florid, horse-faced Democratic Senator Claude ("Red"') Pepper with some awe, if not affection. He bounced into the Senate in 1937, bounded from New Deal cause to New Deal cause, for a time became a glib apologist for Russia and a booster for left-winging Henry Wallace-and set an alltime record for getting himself photographed kissing his wife in public places. Defeated in 1950 by Democrat George Smathers,* Pepper repeatedly made comeback promises, and last week he was trying to keep them. His opponent: conservative Democratic Senator Spessard Holland...