Word: callower
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...style pervaded with the dread of death. Everyone except Roger Rosenblatt liked it. Mailer claims he rediscovered America doing the book. He finally shows evidence that he can fulfill the awesome promise he created with the publication of The Naked and the Dead some 30 years ago, at the callow age of 27. He is now 56 and fat against his will; he's also the best writer in America. His book will be read...
...planning and planting of her garden in southern Maine that she found her deepest satisfaction. Like all serious gardeners, she was no April-to-September hobbyist. Her first magazine piece was written in February, the "season of lists and callow hopefulness" when hundreds of thousands of true gardeners are reading their catalogues and "dreaming their dreams." This month she would have been planning her spring bulb garden, ordering indoor plants for the winter and putting down fertilizer for the snows to drive into the soil...
...year is 1947, and most Americans cannot yet fully believe what the Nazis did. A young Virginian nicknamed Stingo is in New York, trying to write a first novel. He is callow in the ways of most aspiring authors but feels guilty about living off his small inheritance, since the money can be traced back to a slave sold by his family nearly a century earlier. Stingo takes a room in a Brooklyn boardinghouse and soon be comes involved with two other tenants: Nathan Landau, an American Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Gentile who bears...
...callow youth of today, however, who has never thrilled to a boogie base line or bounced to the irresistible beat, Gordon's musical archaeology is welcome. A living fossil, he single-handedly embodies a way of life and--more important by far--an attitude to living which has all but died out today...
...present modern operas with narrow appeal. But his productions of standards from the nineteenth century repertory, like his curious Rigoletto, have infuriated audiences. Levine's conducting has gained undeserved acclaim in the press. It's forceful, direct, and intractably unsubtle; Levine takes scores and homogenizes them. Furthermore, at a callow 35 he is attempting to conduct everything in the repertory from Mozart to Berg and Weill...