Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reality, even when it deliberately sets out to violate it. Stanley Weinbaum's loonies and slinkers have been seen before. The shapes may be different, but his dream-beasts come startlingly close to what the human race has been running across, for a good many years, in its childish nightmares...
...time he was twelve, John Wilbert Glaefke was miserably self-conscious about his looks. Playmates, with childish cruelty, called him "big lips" and "bulldog." In junior high, a teacher asked him in front of the class if he had any Negro blood. When he reached the age of wanting dates, the girls looked at him with frank distaste or fear and refused...
...script that is at once ruthless, compassionate and quietly penetrating. Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears have an almost unbearable intimacy. Sensitively conceived and superbly acted-notably by Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe-Devil makes most cinema explorations of the human heart appear strictly two-dimensional...
...Senators are not present on. I will tell the Senator while the debate is going on. I will tell the Senator why they are not present. It is because some of them are sick unto death of this piddling stuff which is going on day after day here, this childish stuff, this kid stuff. Senators . . . want a chance to vote and get down to a decision. But here there is continual drool, drool, drool. I am heartily sick...
...from the Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School (Yorkshire) and refused to eat her egg. When her mother, Mrs. Lewis Tallantire, wanted to know why, Alma blamed a sex lecture for girls at her school which explained how eggs were made. Mrs. Tallantire explored further, discovered among Alma's childish effects pictures copied from the school's blackboard. Said indignant Mrs. Tallantire: "[They] would label me as a dirty woman if they were found in my handbag." She compared notes with other mothers, heard that their daughters had lost interest in games and schoolwork, were talking "nothing...