Word: fatuousness
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...antiauthoritarian sentiment. Gently chiding Blaine and Steve Jencks in his thick Bronx accent, making intimate asides to his wildly partisan audience, and speaking with alarming frankness of his own sexual license, Goodman offered himself to his sympathizers on an intensely personal level. Before the evening was over even his fatuous remarks drew enthusiastic applause; the issues at hand were rapidly obfuscated as the Liberal Union forum evolved into a triumphant flirtation between Goodman and his audience...
...unhappy result is an undercurrent of anti-Semitism at small Midwestern colleges, which have lately enrolled many bright, as well as aggressive Eastern Jewish students. There is universal hatred of universal military service-ranging from intelligent questioning ("Isn't the Peace Corps more useful?") to the fatuous wail of a Princeton senior: "The Army doesn't pay enough to keep me in beer. I'd have to ask my father for money...
...Post Office." IQ tests use middle-class references that the slum child does not understand; his low score then plunks him into the slow group. He is repelled from reading by fatuous primers about "nice" children who seem laughable even in the suburbs, let alone in Harlem. Harried principals stand ready to expel him; guidance counselors are reluctant to encourage him too much. "Be realistic," they say. "Do what you can do. Try the post office...
...face the truth and therefore had to face the consequences. As Actor Chhabi Biswas portrays him, the zamindar is a seething complex of contradictions: arrogant yet sensitive, pigheaded as well as lionhearted. He is a fool but there is something magnificent in his folly, and even at his most fatuous there sits upon him the ennobling dignity of doom...
...just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy and Field Marshal Bascombe managed to make Roared an off-beat tour de force. Neither waggish, wrattled Margaret Rutherford as the 1963 model Gloriana nor fatuous, foppish Ron Moody as the new Mountjoy manages to do more than add tricks to what is already too tricky...