Word: glib
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About his own renown Erikson is modest. All he has to offer, he says, is "a way of looking at things." At this moment in history, it is a most helpful, hopeful and even necessary way. Behind the glib label "identity" is the broad conviction that the ego is not some wavering horizon line between the superego and the id but an organized entity in which one can have what Erikson calls "accrued confidence." In the search for identity, even the generations are allowed a more positive role. Erikson was fascinated by G.B. Shaw's "eight years of solitude...
That leaves Danny Kaye with rather more than he can salvage. Kaye is not naturally funny but more of a stunt-man of humor who relies on glib footwork, a glibber tongue and a foxy aptitude for facial contortions. He has had to subdue these in Two By Two and concentrate on just being liked. He works long and arduously at it, and he is liked. And pitied. At show's end he is supposed to be 601 years old, and few in the opening-night audience felt appreciably younger...
...trim, young, redheaded girl, and said: "Frances, I wish I could be strong like you." Her envy was understandable. In the first two days of the encounter, Frances had seemed confident, sensitive to the problems of others, familiar with psychiatric jargon, and articulate almost to the point of being glib...
...Agnew's glib and misleading linkage of liberals with radicals, his equally glib identification of conservatism with the center has a clear meaning. It illustrates the fact that the battle is not only political but ideological. Political control of the Senate goes by party label. If a majority of Senators call themselves Republicans, that party controls the committees and thus the power to dam or release the flow of legislation, to schedule or not to schedule hearings, to act or not to act. With political control, conservatives and liberals of the same party are drawn together in common cause...
...series of features on Beautiful People at play. The late Carol Bjorkman, a onetime Saks buyer and jet-setter, began a knowing gossip column called "Carol Says," then moved on to interviews with the likes of Vice President Johnson and a new quarterback named Joe Namath. Reviews, always glib and sometimes perceptive, criticized books, plays, movies, TV shows, restaurants and (lately) Sunday church services. "Eye" and "Eye Too," gossip columns on the snide side, became must reading on the East Side and elsewhere. Pages were regularly filled with features and with candid-camera shots of BPs going...