Word: callowness
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...joining the bevy of women who are gradually taking over television by night as well as by day, German-born Lilli Palmer, 29, broke most of the rules laid down by TV's other success girls. Vivacious, pun-popping Arlene Francis, with her Blind Date, exploits the callow conversations of college boys and tittering models. Plump, pretty Eloise McElhone employs the standard feminine TV equipment of an indefatigable smile, a capacity for continual astonishment ("Is that so?" "You don't say!"), and the ability to talk endlessly about nothing. Willowy, fashion-plated Maggi McNellis, with Leave...
...experience he always "sat" before University Hall, staring with weathered disdain through the ranks of callow youths dragging themselves into the deans' offices...
...longest stories are the worst. They deal with trite subjects: a paunchy middle-aged business man who goes to a costume party in a leopard skin, and a callow youth who seeks adventure in Parses at night. M. J. Arlen wrote both. His style is drab and plot punch is seriously lacking...
...this all makes for amusing reading--but pretty pointless. The "issue"--if it can be called that--has merely served as a pleasant excuse for idle Harvard undergraduates to take callow pen in hand and produce--Look, Everybody!--a Treatise. Students with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about...
...states and three decades of construction service in the Mississippi Valley needs no defense. its record speaks for itself. We can even overlook the misguided enthusiasms of youth--but we are concerned, as we feel you must be, with what the reflection upon your university must be from the callow disregard of truth evidenced in your editorial. We can't help wondering if old John Harvard and the long line of distinguished searchers for truth who have taught there, rest easily in their graves. Lachlan Macleay, President, Mississippi Valley Association...