Word: adults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continuation of solicitous supervision in a kind of adult nursery, where the young person will still be under espionage; a sort of "glorified prep-school...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...certain undersized individuals who had never been within a dozen counties of a college football field. They followed in their fancies the courses of a thousand champions. And of the many geared and wadded juggernauts whose prowess warranted attention, there was one whom the young idea, and indeed the adult, the conservative idea, lifted into eminence beside Thorpe, and throned in glory with Mahan? Harold ("Red") Grange, halfback of the University of Illinois...
...thought devoted to the guide, its dominant note of sincerity, the discreet emphasis laid on the fact that the little critiques are the expressions only of single individuals, may, however, be given short shift by many adult readers. Imagine undergraduates assuming to serve as critics of their teachers! The idea, if it could even have been conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already...
...obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...