Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON, however, had a different view. Its editorial page immediately replied, "The letter in Wednesday's Advertiser on the "morality' of Oedipus is one of the most childish productions we have ever read." Rev. Edward E. Hale also felt the same way and preached in the South Congregational Church that Oedipus was perfectly compatible with Christianity. Even the Lampoon thought the play worthy of attention, but could think of nothing better to do than lampoon...
...wash study of a farmer looking at a hanging man struck this reviewer as one of his better works, in many ways reminiscent of Ben Shahn. The skating waiters are drawn with delicate line and much wit. Biddle's work can be characterized as naive and childish. This does not preclude some clever sketching. His main fault is sloppiness...
...history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...
...Paterson, N.J., Matti Raivio was found guilty of stealing $193 from a liquor store despite his explanation to the court: "As a man trained as a saboteur and a spy, I would not commit such a childish type of crime...
...Emanuel's prescription for his fellow practitioners: "As supposedly mature men, able to accept the world as it is, though glad to play our part in changing it, we should not employ childish mechanisms of denial or omnipotence of thought...