Word: callow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things German-as epitomized by beer and Brahms. Politicians were rogues. The church was only a racket. People in general were boobs. Such were the underpinnings of Mencken's rococo invective. But when serious matters were involved, his philosophical resources were meager and his thinking often callow and jejune...
...properly dissatisfied ("You're raping me," she cries during his listless love-making), the film plummets. Playing host to a series of grotesques, Joe loses an ill-played game of hostility to some erstwhile girl friends. The battle of the exes ranges from shallow youth (Sally Kirkland) to callow middle age (Viveca Lindfors), and includes, in the interim: a toothsome baby sitter; a campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy (is nothing sacred?); a scholarly type who mumbles "I read your paper . . . It's very impressive" as she's being undressed; and a transvestite, presumably added to assure...
...that Harvard is too sensible, too enlightened to react like that. But yesterday I discovered that the spirit of Josiah Quincy is not dead by any means. Even a history-conscious institution like Harvard, with so much history to learn from, ends up behaving as vindictively as the most callow, raw land-grant college in the country...
...callow sixteen...
...Lichtenstein's cover drawing of Robert Kennedy, the New York Senator from Massachusetts, was superb. It provided an at-a-glance character analysis: colorful, comic, callow and caustic...