Word: boyish
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Grown men of solid accomplishment have been known to quiver with boyish delight over toy electric trains, newly netted butterflies, or the music of Wagner. But if their secret passions have left them with the remains of reason, they keep their infatuation from public eyes; the world never understands. The dark secret of Richard Dougherty is that he likes cops. A stretch as pressagent for the New York City police department did nothing, oddly enough, to tarnish his fondness...
...Idaho. Boyish Senator Frank Church seemed to be in serious trouble for a while, now appears to be pulling away from Republican John T. Hawley, lawyer and grandson of a former Idaho Governor...
...then a trim, youthful official of the Justice Department who had just finished his eighth consecutive book with the word Enemy in the title, unfolded the project itself. There was occasional sadness in his voice (the undertaking was indeed a last resort), but occasionally his eyes gleamed with boyish delight and muscles rippled energetically beneath a faded, blue Lacoste shirt...
...mile after mile, imitating Zatopec. But the real skill of his performance is more apparent when he is testing the roadworthiness of a stolen car, sitting home watching a peer on the telly, or walking a Skegness beach with his girl. In the first instance he displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right but begrimed in an unhealthy context, which is what the film is trying to express from start to finish. Consistently, Courtenay preserves a delicate equilibrium between sympathy and repulsion...
...rags, Ferkauf in 1958 abruptly sold $5,000,000 worth of them below cost and set out to restock with better goods. But to do so, he desperately needed an experienced soft-goods buyer. He ran through four merchandising managers in three years until last year he hooked boyish-looking Jack Schwadron, 36, the whip-smart scion of a family that helped to found New York's Alexander's cut-rate department stores (in which Korvette's has a 43% voting interest). Schwadron knows soft goods. More important, he knows the men who sell them...