Word: callower
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...year-old whose life is complicated by the fact that her divorced mother has remarried. Stepfather Andrew Wells is the sort of pipe-smoking, tweedy adult to make a Radciiffe girl's heart do nip-ups. To complete the idyl, there are two other men: Chris, a callow college graduate; and Chadburn, a hesitant illustrator. The question: Who will get Sally? The answer: nearly everybody...
Author Birmingham captures the centrifugal chaos of a world spun away from its moral center. His characters are not admirable, but they are believable, even when their actions seem contrived. But their talk sounds less like the dialogues of lost souls in limbo than the callow chatter of the tables down at Mory...
These more callow members of the Crimson squad will presumably be steadied by a small nucleus of battle-tested veterans from previous track campaigns. Among the latter group are seniors Pete Reider, French Anderson, and John DuMoulin and junior dashmen Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge...
Victor's 1958 model has not yet made the sales charts, and she still has some things to do (dancing lessons, reducing sessions), but there is a good chance that she will sell. Jennie's voice is still maturing from callow to mellow, but it is husky and wholesome, sounds fine in simple arrangements of When I Fall in Love and the little-girlish My Very Good Friend in the Looking Glass, timidly torchy in I'm a Fool to Want You. From her Victor royalties, Jennie has an excellent prospect of becoming rich enough to retire...
...thereupon becomes involved in a train of farcical events involving a Greek who follows a philosophical system called "Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because he thinks her imprisonment may be used as "a pretext for taking over the bloody country again...