Word: callow
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...receive more than a dozen calls a week from aspiring comedians, this can be a double-edged sword, sometimes bringing first-timers who flop on stage during these first performances. But Jenkins also notes that many of the current fan favorites, such as the Walsh Brothers, began as callow comics, rising only gradually to their current status as familiar Comedy Studio acts...
...typical ambitious but callow Harvard youth, I am sort of expecting to kamikaze toward the top of the corporate ladder and, meanwhile, hoping a soul mate will fall into my lap—if for no other reason than it is expected. Company is scary, funny, relevant and, at its best, fairy-tale enchanting. It is scary because Duryea’s character at the beginning seems to be the best of what one can hope for in going from college to the corporate world: he is in a leadership role (a role given him, hilariously, because of his success...
...collective, inchoate desire for change—for some sort of change. Students cannot gather in the street, flanked by police in riot gear, without summoning up ghosts of Paris in ’68, of Tiananmen Square, of Kent State. And compared with these ghosts, we seemed awfully callow. We are capable of gathering, of shouting slogans, of stopping traffic. Shouldn’t we do so to some...
...Laden: Terror pays," says Friedbert Pflüger, a member of the German Bundestag and foreign policy expert for the Christian Democrats. "With Aznar we had a heavyweight in Europe. Without him we have lost an interesting voice and committed opponent of terrorism in Europe." The PP considers Zapatero callow but calculating. "The majority of countries in Europe want a strong E.U. that doesn't compete with the U.S.," says Gustavo de Arístegui, the PP's foreign policy spokesman. "Zapatero forgets that out of sheer opportunism. He's an able politician and he saw the tendency...
...tendency. If George H.W. Bush got in trouble for raising taxes, W. would cut them no matter what. Far from ignoring the party base, he has courted it to the point that polls show he's having a hard time winning over swing voters. He didn't hire a callow kid as his Vice President but instead a commanding political veteran whose power is as controversial as his policies. The father's Gulf War stopped at the Kuwait border; the son's drove right to Baghdad. And if the father had a problem with the vision thing, too sparse...