Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October Comment attempts to "go some way toward particularizing the blanket charges of the glib critics who delight in vilifying 'the press.'" It fails in this attempt, mainly because its contributors are unable or unwilling to take firm hold of the issues implicit in their own material...
...makes a different kind of mistake. Instead of ignoring an issue, he fabricates one. Thus, in an otherwise informative article on the Black Muslim movement, he blames the "mass media" for white indifference to the plight of the American Negro. As the editors of Comment suggest, it is just "glib" to scream at the press for the ills of society...
...hero grew to recognize that in race relations, as in life, there are no short cuts, and he courageously set his face toward selfdiscipline, hard work and fair play. Purlie gains no such self-victory, and he slips into his pulpit at play's end to deliver a glib sermonette on brotherhood, which comes, like Purlie Victorious itself, from the depths of his tonsils...
...distances, today's racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll by a glib Texan with a fast-striding cow pony. "I can remember them betting suitcases of cash around Houston," recalled one oldtimer...
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano & Woodwind Quintet (Frank Glazer, piano; the New York Woodwind Quintet; Concert-Disc). After 30 years, Poulenc's tart and witty notes still work surprisingly well. Many a composer might envy the piece's weakness: a manner sometimes too glib and an oversupply of ideas...