Word: callowness
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...land in a parallel universe of depressingly uniform bars and boutiques. You assume you are experiencing a city at its hedonistic, air-kissing optimum; in fact, you are barely experiencing the city at all. If a visit to Bangkok or Barcelona consists of being seen at what the callow bourgeoisie have decided are the "right" vodka bars, then who's guilty of fostering bland internationalism? It's not just the Holiday...
...Truffaut had no idea of following his little hero, a 14-year-old played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, through 20 more years of seriocomic escapades. But the end of that film, a freeze-frame of Antoine on a beach, left Truffaut and his audiences asking, What next? The callow charisma of young Léaud also begged to be used again. What followed was a lovely short film (Antoine and Colette) and three features (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run) that fleshed out Antoine's early maturity--or, rather, his prolonged, love-addled adolescence. This Criterion...
...longer showers because the shower is the last place he can think and the one place he isn't hounded by his BlackBerry, cell phone and 24/7 news on TV. Apart from wasting a precious commodity (water), it would appear he's never heard of the off switch. Margaret Callow Courbevoie, France Above the Law? While I believe that presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency (NSA) can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. [Jan. 23] I don't think...
Regrets? Yes. But the certainty of some today that we have failed is as dubious as the callow triumphalism of yesterday. War is always, in the end, a matter of flexibility and will. And sometimes the darkest days are inevitable--even necessary--before the sky ultimately clears. Visit Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, at time.com
...students, who take turns posing as parents, but this isn't the norm. Dosed up on theory, graduates are "unprepared for the real environment," says Brownlee. Confronted suddenly by parents, "they feel defensive and don't want to hear questions." Unfortunately, parents tend not to make allowances for callow teachers. "If someone is new within our walls," says St. Ives?based Howard, "they virtually have to prove themselves to parents. Teacher bashing is one thing, but young-teacher bashing is something else. Parents will put the pressure on to make sure their child gets the best of absolutely everything...