Word: childishly
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Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only adults have such childish illusions...
...father spoke for a great many critics when he asked whether I would now be allowed to work on 'real' books." It is a complaint voiced by almost all his colleagues. Their books may be of shorter than usual length, and child centered. But they are not childish, and most are as serious as any adult novel or history. It was because of the patronizing attitudes that greeted her work that Beatrix Potter denied creating for the young: "I write to please my self," she insisted. And P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, sardonically concurred: "I didn...
After houses come gardens. A big house is one way to establish Paradise, but a garden, historically, is a more appropriate place to start. The childish "What if that envisions a mansion is not nearly so ambitious as one that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden...
Alan M. Zukerman '81, a CHUL delegate from Dunster House, said he was "disillusioned by the administration's behavior" in the meeting. "It was childish for Dean Fox to withdraw all the proposals that had just been made simply because a vote didn't go the way he wanted," he added...
...friend Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), who works as a prostitute and has a short session with Paul. But they are not "real people." They are figures in the desolate landscape of Godard's mind. They have materialized to illustrate his deepest, bleakest conception of man and woman: the childish brute and the soul survivor...