Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's not much to say about Tom Harmon's picture except that it is much, much worse than could be reasonably expected. The plot is slow, childish, and embarrassingly overdone in spots. The acting, except perhaps for Anita Louise, is spotty, too. And the script is a marvel of cliche-collecting. Tom Harmon should definitely stick to radio announcing...
What got under skins was the little guests' account of life in Canada. They were told "stupid, soothing things" while going through Customs, then given "a childish lunch of sloppy things like jelly and rice pudding." Toronto's big Union Station with its "slippery marble floor" looked at first to them like a church, later, they decided, more like a lavatory...
...suppression" of such widely known news makes the press almost as big a monkey as Secretary Knox, the biggest monkey of all is made of the general public that is supposed to be kept in ignorance even of things which Hitler must know. But apparently U.S. officials take a childish delight in having a "secret...
Describing the reign of terror in the U.S., Signor Tosi told how Axis citizens were jailed with common criminals, herded into concentration camps. Even women, he said, must suffer these outrages, "such is the fear that has gripped the soul of this psychologically childish people [of the U.S.]." Worst of all, the Italians in the camp at Missoula, Mont, are "watched by policemen, the majority of whom are Jews...
...Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time meets. As a high-school junior, he often cleared...