Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching can be abused Although one defender of the discussion group may find that "the ingenuousness, the insight, the mad spontaneity of freshmen discussing Hobbs or Adam Smith or Burke is like nothing else in the realm of discourse," a large number of sections tend to be dominated by glib, superficial people...
...replacement NBC feels most comfortable with is somebody named Merv Griffin, who has slopped over from daytime game shows. When Griffin is blessed with glib guests-as he was on several shows last week-he is at least innocuous and agile at keeping the conversation alive. Art Linkletter's turns at the helm suggest a scoutmaster on a field trip...
Frenchmen get their news straight enough from the country's press-which is not government-owned and not particularly cowed by France's punitive press-control laws. But they get nothing of the sort from RTF. which is a glib and obedient government parrot. So biased-and so boring-are RTF's newscasts that its reporter teams are frequently hissed when they are recognized on Paris streets...
Unfunny humor has been the normal state of affairs in this country for quite a while now. The glib and easy market researched laugh. 20 years ago the laughs came when the comic said Brooklyn. Today it comes when he says Madison Ave. The joke remains the same. It's just moved a little uptown...
...Laue is not the only glib man in the magazine. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 inconclusively uses the mass media as whipping boy for the bomb shelter fad. But he has a word of comfort: "an all-out attack, precipitated perhaps by the certitude of survival, will destroy many printing presses...