Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after the publication of Philosophy 4, an equally vacuous but somewhat differently angled novel appeared about the Harvard undergraduate. This was The Count at Harvard by Rupert Sargent Holland, whose name seems justly to have escaped posterity. Perhaps the best comments on the value of this book are found scrawled inside the cover of the edition now in Lamont. Various undergraduates from the class of 1912 up to the present have inscribed their critical sentiments there: "Only on person ever read beyond the first chapter of this book. That was myself. Don't do it." And from a member...
...Kaiser. His poem has a delicate sensuality reminiscent of MacLeish, and Kaiser handles his images well. The two other pieces, The Bridgegroom, by Winifred Hare and The Promised End, by David Chandler do not measure up to it. Chandler has a pretty turn of vision, but his poem is vacuous...
...Davis scornfully berates her predatory relatives or falteringly comforts her daughter, the picture is carried along by her skill. To watch her clerking in a department store or collapsing at a filming is not sympathetic however, only ludicrous. Her problems seem unimportant because Margaret is never abandoned or alone. Vacuous Sterling Hayden is always standing by, ready to accept her debts, her neuroses, and her teen-age daughter. When Margaret finally makes the obvious choice between a healthy suitor and a sickly career, it is not because she has grown or gained insight during the picture. Rather, the film ends...
Whirlpool's one bright spot is Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when...
Armed with overage dialogue ("Do you believe in love at first sight?"), they dawdle on leave in rear-area bases. Agar meets and marries a vacuous blonde, played by Adele Mara as if she were struggling to learn how to talk. The script even dredges up a golden-hearted harlot (Julie Bishop) and throws her at Wayne's head. But the tough sergeant never lays a finger on her; when he learns that her tot is in the next room, he opens a box of Pablum. (Says she, impressed: "You know about babies...