Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being an experiment. The principals-Jack Oakie and Betty Compson-are experienced film actors; the plot, involving jealousy in a song-and-kiss troupe, is the main staple of the current season. The tunes are like hundreds of other tunes you've heard, and the fantastic lives, childish problems, and unreal reactions of the characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys from the jazz orchestra who find her penniless in a U. S. city. Only good shots: the orchestral quartet...
...suited to the magazine cover and to the poster than to a university library. And as to their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record? Such a practice makes history interesting and accords with a reverence for facts...
...people that such distinctions are artificial; that there really is a desire among both Harvard and Princeton men to match strides on various occasions despite the outburst of 1926. And while those few are not advocating a return to the "big-three" standards, they cannot help condemning the present childish attitude of the two colleges towards frank and open relations where such would be desirable...
...This childish and preposterous theory was weightily expounded by Señor Medina thus...
...inwardly digested by scholars in all walks of life, geographical truths, which in contrast ring out their utter simplicity, are sadly neglected. Perhaps it is because of their relatively simple nature that they are regarded as unimportant for maturer minds; when one becomes a man, one must put away childish things...