Word: fatuousness
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...have all the scholarship implied by a good A.B. degree and more besides. In addition, he should have a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of educational conditions, problems, and techniques. This means so much more than anything you imply by your use of the word "method", that it is fatuous to say that a trained teacher ought to have both knowledge of his subject and knowledge of method. A trained teacher ought to be a person of learning and also a person who knows education. The Dean of Barnard College and your own editorial writer contributed to an important tendency...
...happens in a day. Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father...
...chief faults of the Model League system remains uncorrected. Much of the value of the discussion is inevitably lost in the fatuous pantomining of Geneva formality. An understanding of the organization of the League of Nations is necessary, but it can be satisfactorily secured from a cursory study of texts; to utilize this machinery as a means for stimulating an interest in international problems merely defeats its own purpose and, by an unnatural ease in reaching preconveived decisions, imparts a false impression of the activities of the League. If students desire to discuss international affairs, it would be far better...
...eager merely to gather evidence in support of them. But the charge of the county authorities that they are Communists is patently ridiculous, and quite beside the point. Regardless of their political convictions, they have an obvious right to investigate industrial conditions in any part of the country. The fatuous finger-wagging of the Kentucky authorities proves nothing except that Kentucky is a near-neighbor of Tennessee...
...Peach O' Reno," the accompaning comedy, is both weak and fatuous. A supposed satire on the mecca of American married life, it combines some good humor with as bad slap-stick comedy as Hollywood is capable of producing. The stupidity of most of the jokes is inexcusable, but nevertheless the audience laughs...