Word: fatuousness
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...making an impression. Author Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, onetime newspaperman, short-story writer and sometime playwright, forgot to provide his play with more than one character. The rest of his dramatis personae, including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...
Knowing that false optimism is as dangerous to morale as pessimism, Government and press promptly loosed a heavy bombardment against such Pollyannaism. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper: "I was . . . somewhat horrified. . . ." Fumed the press: "Featherbrained! . . . Fatuous! . . . People whose peace aim is a binge . . . invest cash in a hypothetical beanfeast rather than lend it to the Government...
...have suggested that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping the Japanese at bay, while other writers have shown Chiang Kai-shek as gradually changing from the dictatorial leader of semi-fascist Blue Shirts to a fatuous boy scout pottering around in Chungking with that New Life Movement which caused W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood so many suppressed giggles (Journey to a War: TIME...
...When a member of the audience told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...
...review of a book with a most noble message-that of sterilizing the German race as a whole. If TIME is suffering from a paucity of reviewing matter that it gives such important space to the mephitic work of a man whose whole book is evidently based on one fatuous idea, let TIME's book reviewers look around for something which might contribute more to American letters or at least be newsworthy...