Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witness whose glib and facile testimony best summed up the miscellaneous failings of television was Playwright Gore Vidal, who began on the familiar subject of TV taboos: "You can't discuss divorce or suicide, but sadism and murder are O.K." Vidal was the only witness to extend his indictment to public affairs shows, TV's one semi-sacred cow. There are "no controversial commentators any more," he pointed out. "Now you have these homogenized newscasters, men with no edges." He concluded: "Advertisers should not have the power to control TV. Let's face it, commercials not only...
With these glib generalizations and gratuitous slaps at Henry Luce out of the way, I can proceed to 325 itself. It is perhaps less pretentious than its immediate predecessors in its ex cathedra judgments and one-sentence reviews, but it still suffers from a normal yearbook failing: it attempts to transcend its primary function of reporting and to pass on to the higher level of analysis and art. In the process, 325 manages to do an incompetent job on both levels. The yearbook's version of the year just passed is not convincing now, and, unless my memory goes very...
This critic must conress his disappointment in the Algerian Reports. They are topical, a little over-simplified, and a bit too glib. Especially annoying is the tinge of 19th-century liberalism in the appeal for unity and good will where substantive agreement is impossible. Algeria is the one subject on which Camus' patriotic emotions seem to have overwhelmed his lucidity. Even as this is written, the inadequacy of sham solidarity is being made apparent. Yet the values implicit in Camus' appeal are not inconsistent with those of his more dispassionate statements...
This is of course hopelessly glib political philosophy, and perhaps they are aware of it. "Sadly," an article states cheerfully, "the very proposition that justifies the Republican criticism [of New Deal economics] is in its usual expression so vague, so wracked with cliches and dogma, that it is virtually useless as a working political program..." Why then, say the editors, let us avoid propositions, devise programs; it is wiser. And so they do, save for their publication of a few nasty, unnecessarily long swipes at the far right. (A Mr. K. T., for example, tells use that he has "nothing...
Alien Settings. From Piltdown man to Perelman, the history of humor is overwhelmingly male, and only a few representative female names present themselves for comparison with Jean Kerr. The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation. At the other, soft-boiled end of the world was the late Betty (The Egg and 1 Mac-Donald, an authentic primitive. Jean Kerr will probably never be quite up to Parker (for one thing, she is not cruel nor, perhaps, as deep), and she will...