Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child. "I've met half my home town," he quipped. "They'll vote twice, so that's everyone." Mulroney's easy manner and sonorous voice are so well suited to television campaigning, however, that he may suffer from what one Canadian commentator calls the "glib factor," a perception that he is too smooth and too vague on the issues...
...also declared that he was "prepared to halt, and even reverse" the deployment of U.S.-built intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could reach a satisfactory arms-control agreement. Those offers were quickly dismissed by the official Soviet news agency TASS as "glib" and "hypocritical." On the Normandy beachhead, Reagan tried again. Said he: "There is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union...
...argues, is the source of a "splintering of styles"-the varied voices poets adopt when addressing the self and their own subjectivity. It is also the source of the critic's problems with judging poetry. Generalizations often prove useless or silly when applied to specific poets. Instead of glib categories, critics should produce analyses of the problems unique to the new poetry and assessments of poets as poets, rather than as representatives of their not-yet-defined generation...
Others are not so sure, "I would not be so glib as to think it couldn't happen again," says Epps. 'That was our problem in 1969--we were too smug, not adequately prepared. We thought we were different from Columbia and Berkeley."NATHAN M. PUSEY...
...gritty, often bumpy policymaking processes of his Administration. His lapses are more than a forgivable matter of mixing up history at a press conference or misrepresenting a trivial budget figure now and again. Reagan is remarkably disengaged from the substance of his job. His aides no longer dismiss as glib the theory that Reagan has a movie-star approach to governing. "In Reagan's mind," says a White House adviser, "somebody does the lighting, somebody else does the set, and Reagan takes care of his role, which is the public role...