Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other white leader's remarks and few colored spokesmen have isolated and described so well the deep and festering wound responsible for the outbreaks-namely, the long-ingrained conviction and the sustained conduct in and by millions of whites that the Negro is an inferior person. The glib, commonplace expression "free, white and twenty-one" epitomizes this ghastly and disastrous view. The noise and smoke in urban areas are but echoes of battles lost in homes, schools and churches where moment by moment the American character is forged. It should be obvious that, in country or city, the Negro...
...most fortunate consequence of the recent controversy is that almost everyone seems to understand that the issues raised by it are vexing ones, and cannot be resolved by glib critical formulae or reassertions of established practices. It is for this reason that I tried to avoid the concept of the university's complicity in the war. If indeed I did not succeed, it shows how easy it is to fall into rhetorical grooves even when one does not want to. But while the demonstration was conceived of and acted out as a protest against...
...dinner party one night, the guests talked with glib facility about so many topics that Willie complained that he couldn't follow the conversation...
...what if Governor Romney said he was brainwashed [Sept. 15]? The Governor has suffered fierce political attacks merely because his speech is not as fast-talking as F.D.R.'s, as glib as J.F.K.'s, or as homespun and hypnotizing as L.B.J.'s. Romney is a man with integrity and noble convictions. Isn't it time the U.S. had a President who would give us the facts instead of a lot of old-fashioned rhetoric, a President who wouldn't be trying to brainwash the American people...
...certain kind of militant animal," writes Playwright John Osborne, "which seeks out and exploits political crises for reasons of personal aggrandizement and creative frustration. There is an odor of psychopathic self-righteousness about many of the hardy annual protesters. I have long ago refused to sign those glib and predictable letters to the Times, including the one during the recent Israeli crisis when so many of these cause-happy activists leapt to the telephone and their pens. The same principle applies to the Viet Nam war, the very name of which has become a synonym for left-wing sanctimony...