Word: childishly
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...Wilson has undergone a metamorphosis. It has become as much a closed society as the clubs are. But ironically, the Wilson members are bound together by their fervent opposition to the isolation of the club system. Wilson's president, Dan Altman, says sarcastically, "To an outsider, this insularity is childish nonsense--to us, it is a way of life, 'the Princeton experience...
...call him Donald -- never saw a counselor until the day he was given the ultimatum. Training young people to hold responsible jobs was the ostensible purpose of the NYC. In fact, there was no training involved. Uncounseled and unsupervised, Donald's attitude toward his job was consistently childish and irresponsible. When he left the NYC, the chances are he never found another job. Donald's experience in the NYC didn't teach him even the rudiments of how to hold a job, let alone give him any skills or experience to offer a potential private employer. Most likely...
...same for the witnesses and their lawyers. They injected into the proceedings enough sound and fury to turn an honest investigation into a mad, futile carnival. These unthinking exhibitionists have crippled the cause they so hotly championed. So costumed Jerry Rubin, an absurd symbol of the entire childish display, waved his cocked hat and bellowed, "I object! I object!" I hope he doesn't mind if his countrymen borrow this cry to voice their opposition to his and his fellows' truly un-American antics...
...desolate Mississippi town, carrying "a banged-up doll and a piece of a rotten banana." Brazenly recounting her hardships to a neighborhood lad, Willie on screen (Mary Badham, the perky tomboy of To Kill a Mockingbird) is still affecting as she sashays through a world of half-truths and childish fantasy in her dead sister Alva's tattered finery...
...Paris critics are slapping back. "Childish stamping," sniffed the weekly magazine Arts. "When Boulez did this kind of thing at 20, he was called a young brat that age would mature. At 30, we said he's a bit retarded but appealing. At 40, one can only shrug one's shoulders." In Le Combat, Critic Jean Hamon accused Boulez of trying to control France's musical development with "a dictatorship Boulezienne conceived on the immutable principle that 'no one has any talent except us and our friends.'" Concluded Hamon: "Goodbye, then, Herr Boulez. Return...