Word: fatuousness
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Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...
...seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
...executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has 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...
...times I regret being a veteran when certain misled or fatuous citizens begin organizing groups like the Veterans Against MacArthur. It is appalling when a few ex-GI's and ex-swabbies claiming to represent veterans as a whole get together, make a few asinine remarks, and fool that they have enlightened the rest of the public. With hour exams at hand I feel certain that Mr. Kornfeld and crowd can find more constructive things to do than organizing groups devoted to such childish chatter...
Last week the answer from all continents was a fatuous yes. The answer missed the point; Gandhi was a rarer human being-a good man. He disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...