Word: fatuousness
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...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
...vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
...months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals. Last week the coalition broke up, largely because of fat, fatuous Dino Tsaldaris, onetime Premier who served as Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister in the Diomedes cabinet. For weeks he had been on the stump, campaigning for the impending Greek national elections; he had infuriated the Liberals, had antagonized Marshal Alexander Papagos and War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos by loudly claiming credit for his own Populist party for the victory over the Communists...
...Miss Farrand cannot look faded. And as the physical appearance of the actress playing the role is unusually important, Miss Farrand tries to compensate for her 'shortcoming' by working doubly hard to convey the pathetic shallowness of the character. The shallowness she achieves easily enough, but the pathetic, or fatuous quality, is missing in her highflown acting...
...Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...