Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, is this really irrefutable evidence of plagiarism? Musicians, if not juries, know the question is not so easily answered. "We're very childish in our notions as to what constitutes originality in music," wrote the composer and music critic Deems Taylor in 1939. "Suppose a play should open tomorrow in which one of the actors had the line, 'Now go to the door and stay there till we call.' How many dramatic critics would point out that it was a direct steal from Shakespeare? But it is. It's straight out of the first scene of the third...
...disillusioned student who complained about the weather inscribed with regret "should have gone to the University of New Mexico" in Lamont. Others found fault with their fellow undergraduates, "Harvard attracts childish, arrogant bastards...
...came to Figlow that it was a joke. The Sunlight Man had no intention of shooting him. He had come to give up, broken by grief, but in the madness of his trickster vanity or maybe just human vanity he could not resist one final laugh at the childish cruelty of man, one last indifferent or partly indifferent sneer, or maybe one final ridiculous pretense that he was still indifferent, still had dignity. By the time the joke came clear, it was too late. Figlow had shot him through the heart...
...musical and visual, are the heart of this production; it's like an animated museum of a legendary past. Although it thankfully stays away from the teenage-oriented material of every nostalgia film form American Graffiti to Peggy Sue Got Married, it still treats its adult subjects with a childish joy, playing with baubles of memory like brightly colored toys. One might be left with an unsatisfied desire to know more about the denizens of the Fifties--our parents and teachers--than just their taste in clothing. To be fair, Nite Club confidential never pretends to be more than what...
Tell me I'm mortgaging my future on some childish whim. Tell me I'm being irresponsible and throwing all caution to the wind when I announce that I have no desire to go to work after graduation. Tell me I have no idea of the consequences that will result from my decision to blow off my future in favor of bumming around the world for no particular purpose...