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...slander to secure tenure for themselves or deprive someone else of it; otherwise normal adults spend long hours trying to squeeze a few more dishonorable dollars out of a grant program to funnel into pet projects; academic wives, a generally bright and attractive strain of the breed, engage in childish games of status and snubbing that would move even the most vulgar and climbing Washington hostess to disgust. For one who accepted a semester at Harvard as a kind of reverse sabbatical--an academic retreat from the pettier aspects of politics--it is all rather...
There are a lot of grown men and women around who spend their time doing things professionally that might seem silly and childish to serious people. After all, adults perform in kids' shows like Captain Kangaroo, they play little boys' games like football and baseball, they run for Congress, and so on. Being an adult doesn't necessarily mean giving up childish things, the apostle Paul not-withstanding. As a fan of comic books in my grade school years, I suppose I always knew that comics didn't just generate themselves spontaneously, but the notion that grown men and women...
...IDIOSYNCRATIC guests snowbound in a manor house outside of London with their nervous host and hostess, an unsolved murder mystery, the haunting refrain of a childish nursery rhyme--these are the ingredients Agatha Christie uses to bait The Mousetrap. A lot of people have been snatching up the bait; the show has broken box office records, running 23 years on the London stage...
...screen. These, in turn, are obviously designed to distract us from the fact that the film is intellectually bankrupt, unconcerned with historical characters or events. Russell's gift for imagery is undeniable; his outrages grab our attention even as common sense whispers that they are false, strained, childish in the worst sense. But the sensations have only a short-term effect; the mind cannot be conned. One leaves the theater feeling manipulated, ill-used, ripped...
...lure of a book like this, as with Johnny Tremain, comes from some stunted attempt years ago, children trying to identify with the towering figures of history as people, and stopped cruelly short by dry tones of reverence or cheap Bicentennial ads. Pigs though many were, there's a childish urge to connect to these people of the American past, maybe the more so when the myths about them fall away with age. When Doctorow winds up these dead dollies and starts them teetering, you get seized, as though some buried roots inside you are churning up again. And from...