Word: childishly
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Concerning news it is hard to say enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates...
...already found that something: his art. To hear him tell it, he is as disenchanted with acting today as he was when he finished One-Eyed Jacks. "A movie star is nothing important," he says. "Freud. Gandhi. Marx. These people are important. But movie acting is just dull, boring, childish work...
...Cenerentola (Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Renato Capecchi, Paolo Montarsolo, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera Chorus, Claudio Abbado conducting; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $20.94). Despite the greater popularity of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, this is actually the composer's comic masterpiece, a work in which the stuff of childish fantasy is transformed breathtakingly into the best kind of adult fun and games. In the title role, Spain's Teresa Berganza sings with a bravura coloratura style that (among mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version...
...America come home is childish," Pipes says. "We are a world power; we have influence and investment all over the world." He does not, however, take the childishly simple step of asking if this influence and investment is something good for America...
...Joseph Goebbels and Alfred Jodl. In his scenes, Guinness strives for a balance between evil and humanity. "Once you start playing a person, it becomes unbelievable if you have him snarling all the time," he says. "I try to indicate a certain sympathy-the sympathy I have for a childish murderer like Macbeth...