Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story deliberately dismissed the subject with glib levity and disparagement . . . Such a treatment is not only calculated to do great harm to the motion picture industry, but it tends to prejudice millions of motion picture fans in advance against an important development long before it reaches the theaters where the public can judge for itself...
...Bedford (pop. 110,000) is a textile mill town. Its Yankees have long since been joined by thousands of Irish, Portuguese, Greeks and Italians. It is old, shabby, resigned, and tolerant of both vulgarity and venality in politics as long as they are kept within reasonable bounds. When a glib, promise-'em-everything, ex-cotton salesman named Edward Peirce (pronounced purse) was elected mayor 20 months ago, New Bedford was undisturbed-even though it was fairly obvious that he expected to "get his take" from the local gamblers...
...Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) pays tribute-onstage, offstage and backstage-to show business. But for all its opulent and glossy devotion, it pretty much lets show business down. It has its decided good points. But as an insight into show business, it is merely glib, goes constantly behind the scenes and never below the surface. As an actual specimen of show business, it mistakes a lot of whirling motion for excitement, and trick technique for originality...
These stories are all written in Salinger's facile, sometimes overly glib style, and, I suppose, some will deprecate his work on this count alone. But Salinger's stories are quite a bit more than light reading matter. They are perceptive commentaries on the times and the neurotic people who make a child's life so traumatic...
...Susie McNamara every Sunday night (7:30 p.m., E.S.T.), Ann is the "private right arm" of a show-business impresario, a glib, high-spirited girl in her thirties, who gets in & out of scrapes with sexy relish. Unlike Maisie, Susie dresses well, and "we try not to make her stupid. There are 5,000,000 secretaries in this country, and we want some sort of sympathetic association." After only a couple of months on the air, Private Secretary-a sort of junior-size I Love Lucy-has built up an audience of a good portion of those...