Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project promoted by some of the Senate's leading Bourbons. Kennedy has also become once again one of the most prominent voices of dissent against the Administration's Viet Nam policies...
...form and full throat from the pulpit of the Duomo cried no louder. We are gabardine swine losing life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion is "utopianism," and by that ism, Muggeridge means the universal creed of the modern world. No more "fatuous" slogan was ever devised than the pursuit of happiness asserted in the Declaration of Independence. "The darkness falls to idiot cries of progress achieved, of mankind having come of age," Muggeridge writes, "with vistas of technological bliss, and LSD trips over the hills and far away...
Tuned to Pitch. Running for six hours over two evenings, Methuselah takes on life and force most often in its acting. Paul Curran and Harry Lomax gleefully caricature Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith as, respectively, fatuous and feckless. Charles Kay, made up to resemble Shaw, touchingly yet comically portrays one of the last of the 31st century's "short-livers"; Philip Locke and Jeanne Watts lend a glint of intellectual ecstasy to the bald, sexless ancients of the future. In such performances, the strands of Shaw's sometimes garrulous argument are tuned to a fine pitch, so that...
...Temple Fielding's followers [June 6] travel his kind of first class. They may think they're treading in the master's Gucci-shod footsteps, but what it adds up to after the checks are spent is more like fatuous Frommer than fastidious Fielding. Just as Lucius Beebe and his private railway car made few if any sociological waves, so Fielding and his portable martini mixer are headed for inverted snobbism's dubious Hall of Fame. NORMAN READER Amagansett...
Fighting the Morbids. There was a deep vein of inconsolable melancholia in many of Lear's contemporaries, though the age is still notorious for its fatuous, unquestioning optimism. It was Lear's friend Tennyson who wrote...