Word: glib
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...Solomon of the Committee for Legal Research on the Draft said after the form was released in mid-November that "it contains some questions that are irrelevant, others that are misleading, and most are directed toward a glib, over-intellectualized student group...
...land where one person out of every 38 lives in a trailer, where 65 per cent of all stationary homes have been built in the last 15 years, where a cloverleaf is not something that brings particularly good luck, Charles Manson, a "glib, grubby little man with a guitar," was quite at home. Fresh from 20 years in prison, he had taught himself the finer points of brainwashing, although there he had used it only to stir up support for the prison baseball team. Now, in the Summer of Love, with thousands of rabbits to hunt, coyote-man was ecstatic...
...demands. Her story is told in rather slapdash fashion: the children, for instance, seem like shadowy refugees from an earlier draft. The tone shifts too suddenly and too often-from comedy to com- plaint to rather fancy lyricism. Nonetheless, the author, a poet with four volumes of graceful, glib verse to her credit, has written a heroine who is sturdier and funnier than she perhaps intended. Diana is a girl with the courage of her own selfishness. A girl right out there doing her buck and wing...
...last five minutes, the movie falls off into an inevitable but rather glib denouement. The girl (Laurie Bird) leaves the group and starts her wandering again, but since her role has always seemed merely functional, the de parture is something less than shattering...
...angst can, of course, be another's anger, and there will undoubtedly be those who find the self-absorbed debate carried on within Rosen's essays reprehensible. Equally annoying are his rather glib capsule histories of radical revolt, his tendency to view older generations from a present of incomprehension rather than in the terms of their own historical past, and his occasionally ostentatious display of other writers and their work, which-though it illuminates Rosen's own development-is not really all that necessary...