Word: childishly
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...from peaceful to fierce, demonstrating Bernstein’s versatility and incredible classical foundations.After the intermission Cabell returned to sing the five-song cycle “I Hate Music,” sung from the perspective of a ten-year old. Hearing the prominent soprano sing in a childish style was odd at first, but Cabell pulled it off with flair and ease. Nora I. Bartosik ’08 accompanied with fine piano playing.The evening concluded with selections from Bernstein’s musicals. Again the impact of the music was diffused by unnecessary commentary, this time presented...
...stronger Koizumi looked for refusing to back down. After his visit Tuesday, he was even more pugnacious than usual, calling international criticism of his decision "immature" and saying, "Even if President Bush advised me not to go I would still go - although President Bush wouldn't say something so childish...
...Unlike some protesters in the audience who were just rude and childish, Rohe was respectful. And saying that McCain didn't reflect the values of The New School seems undebatable. The school was founded in 1919 by philosopher John Dewey, historian Charles Beard and social commentator Thorstein Veblen, all of whom were deeply disillusioned by World War I and gave the school a pacifist streak that seems hopelessly naive in retrospect. Beard, best known as co-author with his wife, Mary, of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, which argued that the founders were operating more out of monetary self...
...rather than just intellectually. (And denying him a name creates pronoun confusion whenever "he" talks to another man.) That Everyman's hero dies is universal. How he dies is not: he is alone, isolated from his brother, sons and ex-wives because of his traits and choices--often selfish, childish ones--but Roth has sketched his story in broad terms that read like mere outlines of his earlier novels...
...grade-school-age daughter of the island's governor, deciding to buy a slave on the mainland and bring him back to do her chores. You can't fault Grady for a lack of daring. But the book's bizarre conflation of the horror of human slavery mixed with childish whimsy, including magical candy, a giant robot and little rock creatures, leaves the tone of the book a hopeless confusion. Produced entirely by digital means, The Lost Colony may be most notable as one of the few such books that actually makes you wonder if it wasn't hand-done...