Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges Greece and Rome that way-there is no reason to believe that the hoi polloi in 5th century B.C. Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about T. S. Eliot. In this, as in other matters, Author Fitch is rather too much the glib child of his times. In the '20s Author Fitch was a student expatriate in Paris and an atheist (originally a Presbyterian, he later became a Congregationalist). In the '30s he was a Socialist bent on electing Norman Thomas. In the '50s he became a conservative and began...
Unfortunately, one feels even more disgusted at the absurdity of the plot, the shallowness of the characterizations. Lawrence Harvey's agent is the tough, glib guy with a tiny bit of feeling for his mistress. Success corrupts him, he forgets his woman, mistreats Bongo, recites lines that would be rejected by a third-rate television script writer. His mistress raises her voice only twice, and remains loyal...
...unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled. "A bad case badly put," sighed one disapproving Laborite. When the votes were counted last week, Gaitskell had defeated Wilson 166 to 81. Relaxing, the M.P.s greeted the results with a full minute of applause...
...glib political oratory we have heard this progress called standing still. If the great things you have done are 'standing still,' then I say America needs more of it." Ike's best crack, by far, was a stinging jab at Kennedy's repeated references to a drop in U.S. prestige: "My friends, anyone who seeks to grasp the reins of world leadership should not spend all his time wringing his hands...
...candidates, Kennedy seems to have rubbed more voters the wrong way than has Nixon. A few Democrats spoke of the vice-president's "evasiveness" and "double talk," but many more Nixon supporters called Kennedy hasty, glib, and "too quick with the answers...