Word: adult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psychologically, the story is weak in its failure to convince the reader that a man of the narrator's intelligence could pursue Imogen for two years without suspecting her obvious neurosis. Censors and eager beavers will be satisfied by certain passages which cannot be quoted in a magazine; adult readers may not be. It is possible to respect Edmund Wilson's intention and attempt without feeling that he has succeeded in what he tried...
...Huck. It is this incarnation of the U.S. small-town mind at its best-a kind of adult blend of Tom Sawyer's intelligence and Huck Finn's human decency- that gave his life and gives his autobiography its special flavor. Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom...
...cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...
Within three years it got a director who has been there ever since: foot-shuffling, pipe-puffing Alvin Saunders Johnson, a Nebraska farm boy and an educational iconoclast. He made it a unique adult school, short of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but far above the dreary, text-bound trade schools which pass for adult education in most U.S. cities. Its faculty is heavily loaded with crack refugee professors from Europe. It keeps school in a modernistic, seven-story, Joseph Urban-designed building in Greenwich Village, now has 5,700 pupils...
...teachers will come to nourish the minds of the next generation. You can stop patronizing the stupidest 90% of Hollywood's products until they stop making them and are forced to use talent, intelligence and new ideas. You can demand that your radio station devote more time to adult entertainment. You can club together and go out after the hide, ears and tail of the Prohibition Party, the Watch and Ward Society and all other Nosey Parker institutions for the small, unoccupied mind. In a nutshell, you can throw your weight around for a more mature, tolerant, beautiful America...