Word: childish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture has a reasonably grown-up point of view, although it never suggests that Scott's jealousy, and his childish indulgence of it, might be as ignoble as his wife's deceit. But it urges, in fairly blunt terms for the screen, that war wives suffered from celibacy as well as the sugar shortage. There is also a suggestion that forgiveness is desirable and hasty divorces undesirable...
Their intense, unhappy childish love affair becomes a public topic, and the moral heat is put on them. In desperation they run away, but are picked up and brought back. Eliza is sent to respectable friends in Boston for a few weeks to get over her experience. When she returns, she discovers that Claw's raging frustration and craving for emotional revenge have led him into a calculated affair with her younger sister. The weather in Eliza's heart has already begun to change: now it becomes cold and bleak and their relationship ends with cruelty on both...
...Spring came to Boston. Strollers on the Charles River Esplanade noticed a childish scrawl which read: "Orpheus loves Eurydice...
Beside that scene, against the cumulative background of that terrible story, most that has been written in our time about man's lot seems rather childlike. And beside Kafka's insatiable posing of the infinite question, most of his contemporaries' answers seem rather childish...
...when FitzGerald was 44, he published, at his own expense, his translation of six works by Spanish Playwright Calderon (which the Athenaeum considered "quite unnecessary to treat as a serious work"). Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language. Three years later, he braved the critics with a rendition of the Persian poem, Salaman and Absal...