Word: fatuousness
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...that some 5,000 federally funded family-planning clinics notify parents within ten working days of the time that their children (age 17 or under) receive prescription contraceptives. In New York, U.S. District Court Judge Henry F. Werker called the Government's arguments defending the rule "fatuous" and "mere sophistry." He asserted that the proposed regulation "contradicts and subverts the intent of Congress," which was to provide funds to combat "the problems of teen-age pregnancy." And in a similar case initiated in Washington by Planned Parenthood, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Flannery said, "It is abundantly clear...
...life, "I think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...
DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York café society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said...
...toppling behind him. Altogether too much of the exhibition is pulpy with triviality. Ontani, who dresses in historical costume or mythological nudity and has himself photographed (not only as Dante, but as Christopher Columbus, Don Giovanni and even Leda), is a natural clown. But as a painter he is fatuous, and his watercolors, full of Donald Ducks and magic mushrooms, would have looked dumb on Haight-Ashbury 15 years ago, let alone in New York today...
What gives Keillor's comic voice its amiable singularity in this excellent first collection of sketches and stories is a quality hard to describe without making him seem fatuous and the describer sound balmy. He is in love with the upper Midwest, with the region and the people that Sinclair Lewis derided. He is rooted, fond of hickishness, fascinated by the utter, daft strangeness of the ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these...