Word: fatuousness
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...candidate the Democratic and Republican opponents are mere tools of the exploiting class. Since Marx never worried about political inexperience in Massachusetts, the problem is irrelevant to the SLP. Hughes, while not an implement of the Kennedy-Lodge variety, is termed a "dreamer with fatuous hopes" as well as a phony socialist. Gilfedder sees no threat from the independent. "Hughes will take the liberal vote from Kennedy, but the liberal vote is not one we get or seek...
Once one is resigned to the fatuous, bankrupt conventions of will-she, won't-she, should-she, shouldn't-she, Mink offers a modicum of fun. The best line has nothing to do with the plot: "Some day there's going to be an uprising and the masses will regain the misery they're entitled...
...sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any role at all-Goro, the wizened Japanese matchmaker of Butterfly; Shuiski, the crafty adviser to the Czar in Boris Godunov; Spoletta, the evil police agent of Tosca; Don Basilio, the fatuous music master of Figaro. His palsied Emperor in Turandot is one of his most recent and brilliant successes. In Tales of Hoffmann he has four roles (Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz) and four rapid-fire makeup changes. This week in Boston, where he is visiting with the Met, De Paolis...
...African nationalism and neutralism against Harry Rudin of the Yale Faculty. Ngcobo comes off the worse for it, largely because although neither talks either to each other's points or to those of their critics, Professor Rudin writes more specifically and less windily. The exchange is a magnificently fatuous one, and the editors should blush...
When Alexander Wiley asked him about his "thoughts on your faith," Glenn might easily have faltered, or given an embarrassed or fatuous reply, but his forthright answer won an ovation from the audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular...