Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hasn't written an editorial he'd retract, he says with frankness bordering on the glib. Not yet, he laughs...
...modern translation and make it sound trendy. The 1930 recommendation of "respect for the physical earth" glosses into ecology and environmentalism. "The South can well afford to be backward" may be twisted into relevance as a plea for the "zero-sum society." Agrarianism, in fact, can be defined with glib hindsight as a Southern branch of "neo-conservatism...
...BUNDY also obsessed the media. He made good copy. No brooding loner like many of our great criminals, he was flamboyantly glib before the microphones and looked dashing on camera. He knew how to attract attention and how to be a celebrity. There was always a story; two jailbreaks, his articulate mocking of the proceedings against him, the dramatic, tempestuous trials, his being his own lawyer, his continual gaming in the spotlights, his marriage while examining his girlfriend on the witness stand. He coveted the segments on the news and the front page stories, always encouraging America's cultish fixation...
...avid student of such glib greats as Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson and George Jessel, Youngman incorporated everything he could learn into an act that is strictly his own, and it works so well, he can't give...
...first time, Bonanno's glib tongue could not keep him out of trouble, as it did in 1964, when three rival dons had him kidnaped after he tried to become the nation's top Mafioso, the capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses). Bonanno persuaded his captors that under the Mafia's bylaws they had no authority to kill him. But they did not release him for 18 months, until he promised to retire and devote his remaining years to reading Aristotle and listening to opera. Instead, Bonanno quickly took over Arizona's burgeoning rackets...