Word: fatuous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions of children the world over grew up convinced that Disney wrote as well as drew such tales as The Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. And there are grown men and women today who, recalling Fantasia, cannot hear the Dance...
...Brown has had some trouble finding his footing on the issue of open housing-first embracing it, then backing off. His indecision cost him the dedication of some liberals, and Brown is so fearful of the issue that a couple of weeks ago he made the fatuous suggestion that all discussion of open housing be banned from the campaign...
...tactics and the aims of the civil rights movement. And regardless of whether these new radicals support the Freedom City plan or prefer women with unstraightened hair, their attitude toward race relations is the same. They see an integrated society of equal freedom and equal opportunity either as a fatuous ideal of the deluded or as a possibility too distant to be relevant. Instead, they are saying, "We don't want to get out of the 'ghetto'; we just want to make it a better place to live...
...take issue with the fatuous bit of anti-intellectualism expressed by Dean May of Yale about the corrupting influence of research scholars. Little wonder that first-rate science education makes little headway when the artsy-tartsy group controls many deaneries. When will some members of the academic establishment recognize that sophisticated, detailed work in the sciences is an essential part of a liberal education? But of course, teachers in the sciences do not have to feign frenzy to stir up interest; science is interesting for its own sake. It seems clear that large segments of the humanities can be made...
...back cloth as complex as the ancient, untidy city that it portrays. It recounts history, both ancient and modern, and includes a decayed family of vulpine, voracious aristocrats who are scram bling madly for possession of a disputed inheritance; an oily industrialist who is patiently plotting to marry his fatuous daughter to the family's weak-minded young heir; a bumbling, gentle pedant who is complacently gloating over a fortune to which he does not yet have legal title, and as lusty a collection of blackmailers, murderers, police inspectors, political agitators and petty shopkeepers as are likely to appear...