Word: fatuousness
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...worst failing is the character of Lawrence himself. It's not that he is unhistorical (this may well be true): he is unbelievable. A curious amalgam of Joan of Arc and Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist pan-Arab fanatic, and through a hilarious concatenation of Grade B events (he is forced to shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed...
...once again the dreadsome time arrives, when large her shadows loom upon the boards, obliterating that refined discretion that nooses up the purse the year around (of charity, the ghost alone remains). Ring the curtain down, before the fatuous seduction makes her bow; down...
...easy, because most of the people who know about current problems like "The Great Atlantic Community" (the general subject of Number One) are either great men in government or random-sized men in universities, or both at once; and the former are so busy and responsible they tend toward fatuous effusions, the latter so cautiously rigorous they lose themselves in the impenetrable thickets of scholarspeak. Steering between them must be for a magazine, something comparable to trying to write medieval history: editors must look for pieces that paint carefully concrete examples to illustrate ideas and give them life. Although...
Further fascinating pages from the au thor's already fat but never fatuous note book of English upper-class doings be tween the wars...
...taken a lot of indignity to make the faculty turn. To hunt down possible integrationists, professors must sign yearly disclaimer affidavits, listing organizations to which they belong. Guest speakers are "screened," leading to such fatuous flaps as the barring of one scholar because he once entertained Negroes in his home. In 1959, a state legislator denounced 14 professors for teaching "apostasy and advocacy of integration." In one two-year period. 25% of the faculty quit...