Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another glib, glossy book about women's subordination in the office. The kicker is supposed to be that the author is a man. (It takes one to tell one off?) And what a man! Editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, writer for fashion magazines, a subtle and sensitive fellow indeed...
This kind of glib trendiness sloppily obscures both the origins of student rebellion here and the changes it has undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Timese, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug clichevie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...
...noted with pleasure and satisfaction is Mazursky's maturity since the rather glib days of Bob and Carol, and his increasingly sophisticated sense of cinematic style (abetted by the faultless photography of Bruce Surtees...
...ancient cliché of democratic life-that politics is a dirty business. Yet most professional politicians and a great many other observers of American life are convinced that despite all the depressing evidence, American politics is not endemically corrupt, and that Watergate is not to be used for glib generalizations...
Would someone please inform me why The Crimson seems to have it in for Franklin Ford. He apparently serves as The Crimson's whipping boy when careful and courageous analysis gets dropped in favor of glib and blowhard rhetoric...