Word: callow
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...buildings, with odd antennas sprouting from their roofs, suggest the fearful complexity of the space age. Coaxial cables rear out of the ground and dive into the innards of electronic computers. Owlish young mathematicians wander in forests of electronics, flicking computer switches and managing somehow to look both callow and wise...
Says Dr. William Douglas, the astronauts' personal physician: "Carpenter's extreme simplicity sometimes gives the impression that he is bordering on immaturity. In fact, I would call him the least mature of the astronauts. I don't mean that he is callow or adolescent. He obviously couldn't be an astronaut if that were true. But his motivations are essentially simple and uncomplicated. He is interested chiefly in three things: his job, his family, and in keeping his body in top physical condition...
What was Yalie reaction to this monument? There was so much sneering and jeering, so much callow, loudmouthed, self-satisfied commentary from the Yale audience that the sound track was usually inaudible, the flow of language lost. There was a good deal of cheering for home states and home towns. If a banjo played, it was necessary to clap our Yalie hands. If a march came on it was necessary to stamp our collective, sophomoric feet...
...crisis because of its newfound powers of self-destruction. He feels that man's best hope of avoiding disaster is to listen hard for radioed advice. Far out in starry space, perhaps, is an old, wise civilization that has survived many crises and is trying to warn the callow earth against the mistakes of its own youth...
...generalize too effectively about this book, for it is too various, too uneven. Freeman apparently gave his publisher poems from an earlier period, poems that are not slick at all, but quite callow. Witness: "Who can train/the weathervane/ or tell the wind/to wax or want?" (from Acrisius...