Word: childishly
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...they poured into the Sacred Room--many for the last time, Vag thought, with his lip 'trembling. Four eventful years he had known them, or almost, from their first naive appearance in the Square which Recognizes Neither Birth Nor Breed. And now they doffed their childish honors and went forth into a stern intense world. The Vagabond perched himself on the back of the President's chair and listened to the reports. Words, words, words, words, so cheerful, so gallantly smutty, and so terribly inadequate. "To be at home in all lands and ages . . . to lose yourself in generous enthusiasms...
This obsession, more preacher's than poet's, drives Preacher-Poet Agee into some of the most exciting U.S. prose since Melville; into mind-wrenching gusts of irony, fury and scorn; into tedious stretches of self-indulgent introspection and childish philosophy. These are caused by Agee's determination to be ruthlessly faithful to his own thoughts and feelings, even when they fail to make sense. His chief failure is one Photographer Evans scrupulously avoids: he clumsily intrudes between his subject and his audience, even when the subject is himself...
There's not much to say about Tom Harmon's picture except that it is much, much worse than could be reasonably expected. The plot is slow, childish, and embarrassingly overdone in spots. The acting, except perhaps for Anita Louise, is spotty, too. And the script is a marvel of cliche-collecting. Tom Harmon should definitely stick to radio announcing...
What got under skins was the little guests' account of life in Canada. They were told "stupid, soothing things" while going through Customs, then given "a childish lunch of sloppy things like jelly and rice pudding." Toronto's big Union Station with its "slippery marble floor" looked at first to them like a church, later, they decided, more like a lavatory...
...suppression" of such widely known news makes the press almost as big a monkey as Secretary Knox, the biggest monkey of all is made of the general public that is supposed to be kept in ignorance even of things which Hitler must know. But apparently U.S. officials take a childish delight in having a "secret...