Word: grownup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
...eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While he dreamed, the little girl next door moved away. When she returned grownup (June Allyson), the boy was no doctor; he was shaping out a too-smooth career as an aviation executive, and was engaged to the boss's daughter...
...Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual edema." But after all, he says, the U.S. is the "craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grownup, and most powerful and magnificent nation ever known...
...Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...
...Besides furnishing a much-needed business blueprint, the conclusion of the pact was a peacetime implementation of a primary U.S. war thesis: that China is a big power now, and deserves to be treated as such. U.S. business naturally hoped that China would soon begin to behave like a grownup...