Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, Pat McGinnis has shown a new and surprising reluctance to comment in public. He stubbornly refused the demand of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities that he appear at its hearings, sent along a posse of glib lieutenants instead. While the Boston hearings were in progress. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing publicly offered up a prayer to "have our railroads run regularly on time and comfortably...
...theater was full Anderson didn't seem to be overly concerned with who was coming and who was being deprived of theater because of high prices. "It's unfortunate" was about all he could muster. The problems of the playwright as a serious artist were passed over by the glib remark that all good plays are produced. And it might have been argued that Williams' independence of his director was admirable if he had a point. It seems as though he did when he decided for literary reasons to publish the original ending to his play...
...about the book is the obvious and exuberant delight which the author takes in portraying a shiftless but engaging young man. The book is quite representative of run-of-the-mill fin de siecle writing, but the choice of Harvard scene and characters seems merely a vehicle for this glib and superficial kind of literature. In a few parts it is amusing, but one must wade through great heaps of banality to find something remotely humorous...
This type of writing, except for one or two decidedly anachronistic excresences, passed quietly away after the wane of Gold Coast Harvard. With the passing of a Harvard "type"--the well-dressed, "well-bred," socially conscious, prep-schooled, glib-talking, worldly, wealthy-son type of undergraduate, humor, both self-directed and outwardly directed, fell off sharply. Even today, a cursory glance at the kind of undergraduate publications at Harvard shows an overwhelming preponderance of the intense and earnest variety...
Last week, their expansion in Europe contained, the Russians were elbowing their way into the Middle East with a great display of interest. Commanding this new Soviet push are not Red Army marshals but propagandists and trade commissars with order books, credit vouchers and a glib line...