Word: childishly
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...name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions of a popcorn machine...
...Christian Science Monitor man, passing by, had seen it all before, this aggressiveness, this haunted fear, these ugly cramps in the fine faces of boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked of the childish misery-not until New York's PM (and John Roy Carlson's national bestseller, Under Cover) had given Governor Saltonstall "a rude awakening" (TIME...
These superb photographs of children are different from others only in their back ground: behind them the world is in ruins and over them the stricken faces of their parents leave their imperishable imprints on child minds. Some of the childish faces are drowsy, dying of fatigue. Some of them are incredibly beautiful, the maturity and purpose on their pondering faces giving to the photographs the wild quality of early Christian...
Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...
...Totem Pole, ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best...