Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year, John Strugnell, a Harvard Divinity School professor, was thrust into the spotlight when he was removed as chief of the team editing the Dead Sea Scrolls after making anti-Semitic remarks to an Israeli newspaper. In the recent issue of the Biblibcal Archaeological Review, there appears a glib bio of Strugnell under the heading "Major Players" in the Scroll project. Strangely enough, the author can't seem to decide whether he loves or hates the man he describes as a manic-depressive, alcoholic anti-Semite...
Since the invention of supply-side economics, most of the slick idea packagers in American life have been conservatives who view taxes with the horror that Carry Nation once reserved for saloons. Harvard political economist Robert Reich is the rare exception, a glib and unrepentant liberal who has become -- almost by default -- the John Kenneth Galbraith of the baby- boom generation. The publication of Reich's new economic synthesis, The Work of Nations, comes in the midst of a Republican recession with record budget and troubling trade deficits. But rather than indulging in hand wringing and partisan I-told...
...their small children, it may, now more than ever, be a good time to ponder the role--or, rather, the nonrole--of poets and poetry in our lives, of the men and women in this country who are dismissed from the daily hurly-burly of significance with the rather glib, dismissive term: "humanists...
...short, we become ideal fodder for concentration courses--smart enough to fulfill the requirements, cynical enough not to do the reading, glib enough to get a laugh and blase enough not to rock the boat...
PRICE OF FAME. Movie star Charles Grodin headlines off-Broadway in his own play about a movie star being interviewed by a reporter (the beguiling Lizbeth Mackay) who he realizes is out to do him in. He returns the favor more literally in a glib, genial formula comedy...