Word: callow
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...send boys and girls to college not because that is the time in which they learn best, but because we ourselves have learned no better place to send them during that period of callow, unformed youth." With these words the conqueror of the Tennysonian Galahad continues his illusion-shattering march...
WHEREAS, a certain publication of Boston and Cambridge Massachusetts edited by callow youths who are students at an institution which tends more towards Socialistic Modernism than to pure Americanism has seen fit to publish an Editorial under the title "The Drunken Legion...
...nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling at the bottom of the open Pandora...
...matter is not one of indignation but of deep pity for the feeble wits responsible for the exhibition of distorted taste. The mayor of Boston is a victim of the immature group that produced the Lampoon. In their childishness they have been cruel. With the conceit of callow youth, the editors have done a thing which they will recall with a sense of shame when, and if, their brains develop to the adult state...
...custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals in his charge. Thus, when the play begins, the company includes the paunchy rascal Jonathan Wild, a decadent nobleman calling himself Count La Ruse, and one Cartwright, a callow poet incarcerated for debt...