Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion," says Stanley Verba '53, "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...
...sophisticated this might all seem childish and immature. This may be true, but tradition, youth, and the majority of us will have it so. Rallys have been, and always will be, a part of student life; be they banned here in Cambridge, and carried on in other parts of the world, or not On the other hand, concede for a moment that the sophisticated are correct in assuming that rallys have no place in student life, are a danger to the public, and should be suppressed by law. One must still contend with the methods used by the police here...
Secondly, on grounds of artistry and originality I'll have to plead de gustibus--I thought "Birth of a Nation" was a lousy movie; crude, childish, violent, and farcical in its most "dramatic" moments. Sure it has Griffith's panning technique and a couple of great battlefield scenes, but why not cut these out and show them as slides? Or go see "The Red Badge of Courage," which is about fifty times as good. Filling in the lacunae of a few cinema snobs does not justify the risk of vilifying a race, or pandering to prejudices that are already...
...This is particularly interesting," the report adds, "inasmuch as it includes a number of persons who, for one reason or another, have not participated in any activities. Only four percent of the respondents felt activities to be "childish, noisy, and generally worthless...
...studio's top scriptwriter, T. E. B. Clarke, bases most of his ideas on the Ealingite premise that cinemagoers like "mild anarchy-the outrageous, childish things that we all wish we could do but can't." He wants the man in the audience to say: "That's me. I really am rather funny, aren't I?" Then, as one ridiculous situation follows another, the reaction should be: "I know this couldn't happen, you know it couldn't happen, but wouldn't it be nice if it could...