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Word: glib (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk and read about what we have seen and heard. As a drama critic and former literary director of England's National Theater, Kenneth Peacock Tynan knows what keeps readers and audiences in their seats. He did, after all, conceive and produce Oh! Calcutta! Tynan can be glib, self-serving, tricky and loosely digressionary. But he is never dull. At 52, the graying provocateur describes himself as "a cricket-loving radical" and misses few opportunities to tease the bourgeoisie about the joys of the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost and Found in the Stars | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...Tooby is also quite glib about labeling our group as Marxist. Had he investigated, he would have found that many of us in the Sociobiology Study Group would be quite unhappy with this characterization. To dismiss all criticism of sociobiology based upon a misrepresentation of the political stance of one segment of the critics is a mark of dishonesty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sociobiology | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

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