Word: callowness
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...find use for the great old British lions; in The Entertainer he gave Laurence Olivier his meatiest modern role as a decayed vaudevillian. But with Look Back in Anger, the 26-year-old actor-author, who never went to university and who, only a year before, was playing callow Freddy Eynsford Hill in a road-company Pygmalion, forever changed the face of theater...
Particularly wonderful is the all-too-brief treatment of the love affair between Gareth (Simon Callow of "A Room with a View") and Matthew (John Hannah in his screen debut). Hannah's reading of W.H. Auden's great love poem, "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" at Gareth's funeral is one of the most poignant moments ever captured on celluloid...
...been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks gorgeous but hasn't a clue what to do with either of these somewhat underwritten roles...
...those of you who are about to read these essays for the seventh time, we apologize. (Reading period's tough on all of us.) For those of you laying your callow eyes on this for the first time, you can take these lessons to heart. (The system apparently hasn't changed too much since 1950, and while Natalie Wood and Social Relations have gone the way of the buffalo, O.A.'s and A.G.'s have...
...preconditions for the kind of action which makes the moral life possible. For the liberal, redistribution and socialization have become ends in themselves, and there is no problem which will not admit a material and governmental solution. Nothing better demonstrates the hollow materialism of the liberal agenda than its callow indifference to family and to the moral environment in which children are brought up and educated, so long as public monies are available to exacerbate the problem...