Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-curtains, waxed floors and seldom-used ashtrays of the rectory are evocative just short of genius. But the best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting. Father Fitzgibbon might have been any brogue-rippling old male biddy. But as Fitzgerald portrays him-senile, vain, childish, stubborn, good, bewildered, stupid-he is the quintessence of the pathos, dignity and ludicrousness which old age can display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest...
Vainly did effervescent Lady Astor seek to settle things. Why not, she asked, let the House vote on teachers' pay without involving the question of confidence in the Government? Other members echoed her plea. But Minister Butler, pale and impatient, roughly retorted: "Childish. ... I am here to give a lead. ... I must put myself and the Government in the hands of the House...
...with the feeling of having been drawn and quartered and left for the vultures. Its action leaps from shadow to shadow with Japs interspersed. Its photography was technically well done but was over-emotional. All in all, it has an artificial flavor which makes it seem for fetched and childish...
...name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights up, in an enormous neon dragon above Times Square, in the whistling convolutions of a popcorn machine...
These superb photographs of children are different from others only in their back ground: behind them the world is in ruins and over them the stricken faces of their parents leave their imperishable imprints on child minds. Some of the childish faces are drowsy, dying of fatigue. Some of them are incredibly beautiful, the maturity and purpose on their pondering faces giving to the photographs the wild quality of early Christian...