Word: fatuousness
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...people for whom he is willing to die, the United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom
Kilson has written a reply to the letter, calling it "fatuous and disingenuous...
Most of the cast can't match him, and only intermittently--in the fatuous joy of Norman Ornellas as the doomed and "sweating lord" of Hastings, for example--does the play rise to its full height and mock the dead bones that lie scatt'red by. Penelope Allen and Pacino offer another such moment in the scene where he woos her before her murdered husband's bier; except for Clarence's dream. Richard III's poetry doesn't sing of its own accord like the later plays', but Allen's almost lilting threnody...
DEVELOPING THE METTERNICH analogy. Landau is so eager to prove that Kissinger is living in the past that he ignores the real similarities between the worlds of the two diplomats. In perhaps his most fatuous statement. Landau writes that in the early nineteenth century, "the movements for popular sovereignty and self-determination had not yet reared their threatening heads." But of course, without such movements, there would have been no Metternich as we know him. The Austrian diplomat was fighting to contain just those "movements for popular sovereignty and self-determination" which the French Revolution had ignited. And interestingly enough...
...question seems, perhaps, more important than it is. Orwell has become a sort of moral touch-stone for many intellectuals in political matters. A particularly fatuous example of this mentality can be found in Lionel Trilling's introduction to Homage to Catalonia, Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. "Orwell, by reason of the quality that permits us to say of him that he was a virtuous man, is a figure in our lives," Trilling writes. He says that Orwell "seems to be serving not some dashing daimon but the plain, solid Gods of the Copybook Maxims...