Word: fatuousness
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...reports in the Sunday papers did the affair justice. The reading of them makes two impressions; one, that the jesting was horribly flat, the other, that this happy family is really responsible for the somnolent idea of the average voter, that what is, governmentally, is right. It is a fatuous patriotism that is dear to the demagogue and synonymous with stagnation...
Philip Snowden, onetime Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, sar donic cripple, brilliant economist (TIME, April 25) : "They who have proposed this bill are hypocrites, and they are fools who by rowdy ism have led this debate to such a fatuous conclusion. . . . As for general strikes, they are general nonsense because they
Twenty-three and a quarter centuries ago, a short, grotesque man, thicknecked and paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing...
Despite of references to your too-facetious, almost ribald references to Prohibition and distasteful forms of religion, I no longer believe in the total depravity of TIME. Whoever can perceive the fatuous diabolism of Sinclair Lewis is himself certainly not altogether demoniacal...
Still these and their political overflow have a rather small place in the undergraduate's platform of action. They are of the world beyond. And, while it would be disastrous to neglect the approach of that world, it would be fatuous to desert more impinging problems for it. If youth revolt and student reform are desirable, they are desirable where student comprehension is sufficient to insure both the sanity of new propositions and the discovery of effective reforming methods. It is the latter, attained through the former that will make college graduates fruitful innovators after college years...