Word: childish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Survival Game does not sound sick or macho-childish to me. Pitting man against man in a life-or-death situation is the ultimate form of danger and the game provides a chance to act out harmlessly a fantasy for people who find danger exhilarating...
...perhaps the true sign of age is acceptance. "Eighty years old!" Paul Claudel wrote in his journal. "No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And how astonishingly well one does without them." The S.M.A.P., who still retains most of his faculties, also retains a childish capacity for surprise...
Everyone had an emphatic opinion about the new game. Virtually all women and quite a few men pronounced it sicko or macho-childish, or both. Almost all the remaining men, including a considerable number who were not gun fondlers, wanted to try it. After press reports of the first game, held in New Hampshire last summer, appeared, strangers began calling up Gaines and his friends to ask where they could play. After some early problems with insurance ("You want liability coverage for what?), they began selling kits at $145 each, consisting of the Nel-Spot, a holster, a supply...
These are some of the political issues that make both military successes difficult to savor. There are other troubling elements?more abstract, but just as real. One is simply the exasperation always felt at watching diplomacy devolve to bloodshed. Another is the childish reactions that events like these inevitably bring out, especially in observers. Both wars have been remarkable for their displays of weapons and tactics. The effects of Argentina's Exocet missiles are still benumbing to consider. The story, when finally told, of how the Israelis adapted their E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes to take out the Syrian MiGs...
Scrooge is the embodiment of home-grown pluck and made-in-U.S.A. materialism, but Barks' stories always come up with someone even greedier, or some force of history that the duck cannot best. In the end, Scrooge's enjoyment of wealth remains essentially benign, childish in its selfishness, but childlike in its spirit. Whether the old miser would acquire this volume is a moot point. It is pricey; on the other wing, it is an investment. An entire genre of clothbound comic strips from Little Nemo to Doonesbury has flourished in the post-Pop era, but seldom...