Word: childishly
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...Time magazine interview last year, that his true audience is "too small to take my books off the shelf." Salinger's world is like fairyland in its unreality; no unpleasant adult conflicts disturb the wonderful Glasses as they grow up. Reliance on ritual is a characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...
...childish, and the lighting leaves shadows all over the stage, but these minor faults are transcended by the quality of the acting. Everyone with any interest in modern theater should make an effort to see this production. The diehards, who maintain that there is a deep significance in such trifles, will more than appreciate the performance. Those uninitiated into Albee's world will learn that the idea is not untarnished, yet applaud and excellence of acting seldom seen on he college stages...
This kind of childish nitpicking and microscopic fixation on details have no bearing on the book's basic thesis and contribute nothing to one of the most important dialogues...
...recommend a single fifth-grade American history text. They talk of the wives of pioneers making linsey-woolsey dresses and men chopping down trees, but they omit things like the Monroe Doctrine. They are not subversive but childish. A fifth-grader deserves something better. I want elementary schoolchildren taught love of country at an early age. I make no bones about this. If this is indoctrination, I don't understand the meaning of the word. It's just common sense. There isn't any need for flag waving or emotionalism. All we need to do is teach...
...sexual play were enormously amusing. "There were two reasons for this," writes Aries. "In the first place, the child under the age of puberty was believed to be unaware of or indifferent to sex . . . Secondly, the idea did not yet exist that references to sexual matters . . . could soil childish innocence; nobody thought that this innocence really existed." Blackboard Jungle. But toward the close of the 15th century, a new attitude arose among the pedagogues: first, that children were innocent, and their innocence should be protected; second, that they had character, which should be strengthened and formed...