Word: fatuous
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...worth a dozen doctors in a far-away hospital. Last week, as the rumbling political volcano of Egypt blew its top in a roar of fulminant frenzy, first aid was urgently needed. It was firmly applied by a young king whom the West had long regarded as a fatuous playboy...
...steadily downhill, from a mildly sophisticated fantasy to a shamelessly mechanical farce. As a play, it goes nowhere at all: dead and alive alike merely cruise the stage, and -worse yet-when traffic lights are green for one group, they are red for the other. The love story is fatuous, the writer (Leo Carroll) gets lost in the crowd; and though Playwright Patrick is more than capable of a funny line, his ghosts make anything but a funny lineup. Only the Indian, thanks to saw-voiced Doro Merande, succeeds...
...public, quite correctly, thought that someone must be to blame. Joe McCarthy went into the business of providing scapegoats. It was easier to string along with Joe's wild charges than to settle down to a sober examination of the chuckleheaded "liberalism," the false assumptions and the fatuous complacency that had endangered the security of the U.S. That he got a lot of help from the Administration spokesmen who still insist that nothing was wrong with U.S. policy helps to explain McCarthy's success-although it in no way excuses McCarthy...
...Mobilizer Charles Wilson was going around announcing that Stalin would be "a dead duck"-if he attacked the U.S. any time after Jan. 1, 1953. In its unintentional invitations for Russia to attack while the coast was still fairly clear, it outdid Louis Johnson's famed fatuous boast: "If Joe Stalin starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning . . . America will...
...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...