Word: callowness
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...brutalizing effects of war are thus stated, but they are seldom felt. In a film that asks little of its actors, Hamilton seems the same callow youth from first to last. Vincent Edwards, James Mitchum, Eli Wallach, Peter Fonda and dozens of others pop in and out of the narrative or simply vanish, presumably missing in action. There are no heroes. In one unconvincing scene, a muddled plea for brotherhood, G.I.s gape idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys...
...Saigon, so the Hong Kong party for 48 guests took place last week without either the guest of honor or the host. But Mohr reassured Schecter (a father of five) that the hours spent with Mme. Nhu would at least leave him well prepared for dealing with "the callow girls of Radcliffe...
...Toronto's Maple Leafs: the Stanley Cup playoffs, for the second year in a row, beating the Detroit Red Wings four games to one to win pro ice hockey's biggest prize. A mixture of callow youths and creaking veterans, the Leafs confounded experts by finishing the regular season on top, brushing past the Montreal Canadiens in the play-off semifinals. Then, led by well-mannered (one penalty all season) Center Dave Keon, 23, who scored four goals and chipped in two assists, they skated rings around the Red Wings for the Stanley...
When biology bores and philosophy palls, there is no cure-all like a quick trip to a Bogart movie, where tensions can be worked out by that funny little man who hits back so hard when he gets pushed too far. And no callow youth is really a Harvard Man if he has never seen Casablanca-- the all-time hunk of cinema hokum--during exam period...
...Boise, Idaho, he told a group of Republican candidates: "One of my biggest concerns is that government be run by wisdom instead of by callow youth." Foreign crises like Korea, he said, were met "headon with firmness, and they were solved." Guatemala was rescued from Communist domination. Wages, income and the gross national product went up; the rate of increase in the cost of living went down. "If this is not moving," said Ike dryly, "it is a reasonable facsimile thereof...