Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture scores a clear victory as a depressing document on the Roman terrain, particularly the remains of Mussolini's passion for majestic expanses of concrete. And De Sica's directing of his child star-Staiola's meanderings and scramblings, his thousand & one childish mannerisms, from unbuttoning his pants to his perplexed concentration on the chattering face of an Austrian priest-is worth several admission prices...
...rules which appeared Tuesday morning. The Dean's Office does not threaten students. It expects Harvard students to behave with a reasonable degree of intelligence and sense of responsibility to their college without being "threatened" like schoolboys, and we are rarley disappointed. We have had no trouble from misguided childish pranks by Harvard students at other colleges for many years and I see no reason to expect such trouble this year...
Worse than these administrative sins, however, in the light of popularity, were the childish escapades of the governor and his entourage when they drove around the State in their limousines. Twice, policemen in the procession ahead of Curley were killed in crashes; three deaths were caused directly by men in State cars. Mayor Mansfield of Boston dubbed Curley the "Hit and Run Governor." It was in this connection that one of the most famous of the Curly quips came. A reporter suggested that one of Curley's night trips to a disaster scene during the 1936 floods, was a little...
Subjective art is imperialism; the painter insists that everyone's reaction should be the same as his-a childish piece of egotism. The objective artist is democratic; he keeps his personality out of it. He does not say: "This is what I saw." He says: "This is what was to be seen...
These two affairs aren't passing by unnoticed and unopposed. Many educators have denounced the House Committee's textbook maneuver, and the California faculty is reported to be "concerned," at least, about its university's proposal to introduce the childish little pledge to the flag...