Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the newsmen saw was the world's biggest and most expensive accumulation of junk. It threw a pitiless light on the character of the man who had lived here until a few weeks before. Farouk's tastes sometimes seemed curiously childish, like those of a schoolboy who has never grown up beyond the French postcard stage. Above all, the palace gave the impression that someone had feverishly and indiscriminately crammed possessions into the vast rooms, to ward off loneliness, or perhaps despair...
...must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent-TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word...
...somnambulistic Paul (Edouard Dermithe) live like "two limbs of the same body," isolated from the outside world in an unreal, fabulously disordered "turtle's shell" of a room in a Montmartre apartment. In this chamber, "balanced on the brink of a myth," they play in utter unselfconsciousness a childish-grown-up sort of game: prancing and pluming themselves, idolizing and tormenting each other, cramming themselves gluttonously with a sticky hodgepodge of sensations...
...White House ... I never cease to marvel at the many facets of the MacArthur personality, but this one really takes the cake. What makes Mac think he is an exception to the old political axiom-that generals make poor presidents? It smacks of an inflated ego, plus a childish fit of pique, i.e., "if I can't have it, neither...
...would like to raise one dissenting voice to the choruses of protest against the Cambridge police that have been filling the CRIMSON lately. In my opinion, the riot last Thursday was a disgrace to the name of Harvard exceeded only by the childish recriminations that the CRIMSON, the Student Council, et al. have indulged in since the riot...