Word: glib
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Comedy based solely on witty little word plays and glib repartee draws on the quirks of contemporary society; within a couple of years it seems dated and worn. Moliere's version of street comedy may not be literary or polished, but it endures, provided the director does not get bogged down in rhymes and plots and instead creates a mood that lends itself to silliness...
Every volume was a bestseller. The tenth, Rousseau and Revolution, won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize. Yet the very qualities that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On the other hand, he was capable of aphoristic wisdom that any academician would envy ("A nation is born Stoic, dies Epicurean...
Maya Angelou cannot use the same excuse. She has not been forced, by the threat of Hollywood unemployment, to reduce her past to sentimental and glib reminiscences. For she too has become observer of her own past in bringing her audience closer to famous Black men and women in American social history. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou's first major work, told a complicated, autobiographical tale of the author's childhood and expressed the voice of a timid and surprised child in mature prose. Her stepfather introduced her to sex by raping her, her mother abandoned...
...question comes from the Rev. Donald Wildmon, head of the National Federation for Decency: "Where is the TV show about a modern home with decent people?" The glib answer is: Nowhere. Ordinarily, a crusade to purify the tales shown on the tube would deserve only that short shrift. But Wildmon's question begs for a more thoughtful response, if only because TV's gory and jiggly tales are not the only ones that are conspicuously short on niceness. The same can be said of most all the world's fiction, narrative or dramatic, trash or quality...
...hasn't written an editorial he'd retract, he says with frankness bordering on the glib. Not yet, he laughs...