Word: childishly
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...eloquent speakers in December 7 are the laconic, who marked their feelings as they said, "Well, it's here," or the heartbroken who said nothing at all. There is a simplicity in the reactions of the people which must seem childish to the Nazis, infantile to the Japanese. For when the news of war broke on the cities that were already turning into armed camps, the soldiers and the folks at home alike asked the most warlike question of them all: "Will Christmas leaves be canceled...
...troubles are the result of himself. That is, the selfish emotions and passions within himself. And any emancipation from these conditions must be accomplished for himself-by himself. Individually and alone. Maybe collectively later, but first as man and then as mankind Surely it is only childish dreaming that makes us hope we can come to live in Utopia without first becoming inward Utopians...
Folk Songs of the U.S.S.R. (Red Army Chorus. Pyatnitzky Chorus, soloists; Keynote; 8 sides). Some of the deep feeling, childish simplicity and vein of fatalism of the Russian people shines through these well-chosen songs, which include Stepan Razin, tale of the Slavic Robin Hood. But the recordings, made in the U.S.S.R., are fuzzily inadequate...
...Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving them cleanly home. In Malaya this Air Force confused and broke the British, made their calm confidence look like childish complacency...
...strange thing about this simon pure attitude towards America, is that it is embraced by isolationists as freely as interventionists. Ever since Henry James we have tended to consider ourselves apart from the wickedness of the rest of the world, clinging to a charmed existence with a sort of childish naivete...