Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate the end of their childish resistance I now decree that the Fourth of July, known to them as Independence Day, shall be known henceforth as "Laugh at America Day." Let 24 hours of continuous laughter at their stupidity ring through our New World on that date. I myself shall be on the air in New York to lead you in that great laugh chorus...
...petition was granted, but she will have to wait for a final OK until after July 20, when she'll be 21. K.T. is quite sure no other actress has been smart enough to use initials. She insists it was her own idea, but feels that the picture of childish absorption drawn by a rapt interviewer in the Chicago Daily News of June 7 is a slight exaggeration...
Money problems have not justified the University's differential treatment of Stage and Radio. Harkness had the money for a theatre. Nor does the argument hold that Harvard teaches only theory--for Baker, if this were true, never would have been allowed his "47 Workshop." It was childish to limit drama to the teaching of theory; it was extravagant to refuse the donation of an auditorium and lose the best dramatist of the day. But for the University to continue its stepfatherly treatment, and charge the Harvard Dramatic Club an average of two hundred dollars a production for ill-equipped...
...Poem For the New Year," composed recently by Dunstan Thompson, is a simple yet commanding appeal for faith while faith is crumbling, for reality when all childish dreams have turned to nightmares. The necessity of this moral reform seems obvious to everyone today; its appeal is eloquently voiced by Dunstan Thompson...
Brooks attacks obscenity in modern writing as being as childish as Howell's prudery. He feels that the preponderant portion of our contemporary literature is written by adolescent minds, by men such as Hemingway, Wolfe, and Meucken. These writers, he asserts, feel that their most important duty is to "face life," but in so doing they have become "emotionally shallow...