Word: fatuous
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...abandon tactics when they do not bring immediate success. We search vainly for something new and dramatic with which to end the war. We fail to persevere, and we fail to struggle. And our failure is reflected in the continued destruction of three Asian societies. It would be fatuous, and discouraging, to think of this spring as the beginning of "The Offensive" which will finally end the war. We have already had a hundred beginnings. What we need to do, and what the Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians have been doing, is to continue to struggle, continue to build until...
...Ferenczi. Patsy's task is enormous. Alfred's college sojourns into any form of activism were doomed when he realized that above every government functionary there was another, that society had become a machine which continues to blur personal motivations until it runs down. Patsy, for all her fatuous cheerleading and self-enclosed attitudes, wakens Alfred out of his emotional lethargy. But just when he acquiesces to her post-marriage plans, she falls victim to an assassin's bullet...
...first place must a film about outrages committed against the Indians be told through the eyes of a fatuous white soldier who spends more time losing his virginity than coming to political consciousness? But then the answer is obvious. As Hollywood understands it, who would pay to see a film about Indians if it didn't have at least one white star and if it didn't tell its story through a comprehensible white racist intelligence? Can any of us even imagine what a film dictated by an Indian's perceptions would be like? A Man Called Horse has made...
Such work is the triumph of the technical adviser, not the film maker. The essences of conscience and character are left unfilled. Cromwell ends with a fatuous paragraph saluting Oliver's great contributions to democratic government. It never mentions that two years after his death, the Lord Protector's bones were dug up and hanged at Tyburn. No one knows precisely where Cromwell's remains now lie, and it is vain to search for any vestige of the man in the film that bears his name...
...pomposity-just as Bob and Ray do. Their comedy reflects a society that is inundated with talk. Their chief target, the interview show, affords a shock of rueful recognition to everyone, for who has not spent hours of his own prime time listening to the dull conversing with the fatuous, or to Babel lecturing Babbitt? Bob and Ray have thrown a net into this noisy, restless, self-important sea of totally irrelevant information and fished up the audience's own image in bursting bubbles of humor...