Word: glib
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...stylistic loss, in what is a string of vignettes anyway) by some memories of his prep school years, and some from the years at Yale, where the teachers had twinkles in their eyes. A chapter begins with "The reason I waited to marry..."and sidles into a glib and superficial commentary on sexual attitudes in the thirties, a commentary that is all the more awkward for being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real...
...feet. This helped to set a demanding new standard that elevates flash over sub stance. The effect of television - which in one year can make an unknown face tiresomely overfamiliar - has been to disqualify able but uncharismatic men, and to make others (Humphrey and Muskie come to mind) glib parodies of their once more impressive selves...
...Such glib parallels have reinforced complaints by businessmen and public officials that the press is gratuitously contributing to bearishness. For the most part, however, the press has avoided wallowing in gloom. Nor have many publications been suffused with optimism-an attitude that most readers would reject anyway now that both Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economic adviser, and their own firsthand experience warn them that harder times are ahead...
...look through the microscope at onion skin cells, but also took photographs of them; who didn't just take postcard pictures, but tried to blow them up to enormous wall murals. He was oblivious to the fuss, just as he never wondered whether he would rather be athletic or glib with girls than be alone in his basement so much of the time...
...marriage merely "an agreement to allow outside affairs"? All this time I thought it involved a few minor things like mutual trust honesty and the ability to be a whole enough person to love someone without choking him off from his own potential. Defining open marriage with that stupid, glib little phrase is like defining the ocean as a can of tuna fish...