Word: childishly
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...have Harlem approximated; and as a child psychiatrist who has worked with Negro and white children in the South's desegregated school's and in northern ghettoes, I had heretofore overlooked the susceptibility of those children to "sentimental demonstrations." Mr. Smock tells us exactly the stuff of those demonstrations: "childish naivete is set against hopeless circumstances for maximum pathos." I'll have to remember that the next time I treat a young Negro delinquent of seven or eight, already tough, yet soon, in treatment, able to speak his fears and confusions...
Furthermore children are an easy mark for sentimental demonstrations. Here, as in Charles Dickens, childish naivete is set against hopeless circumstances for maximum pathos...
...Home of the Brave, and the Land of the Free, of the New Deal, of the Fair Deal, of the New Frontier, and of the Great Society can have no respect for the inscrutable, childish, feebleminded, sloganmongering land of the Great Leap Forward and of the Hundred Flowers, with its already ancient culture...
...Lingering Look. Perhaps it is, but Marcello Mastroianni falls into a Neapolitan reverie at the very mention of her name (". . . her childish, pouty lips, that slightly devastated look, her tiny, Japanese hands . . ."), and film directors all over the world have to struggle to praise her enough. "She can be elemental or elegant, warm or astringent-in fact, anything she chooses," says Orson Welles. England's Tony Richardson calls her "more informed, committed and passionate" than any actress he knows: "She is totally involved in the seriousness and importance of movies as distinct from the money and glamour." India...
...encourages the student with advanced placement or standing to view General Education as a unique opportunity rather than as an onerous or childish obstacle...