Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of disagreement. Fact is that it is less showy about sex. Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases, e.g., the recent dope scandals, it makes Flaming Youth look like amateurs...
...anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the aborigine. He put it in his journal and his reflection follows: "I carried that to an anthropologist friend of mine and he said. 'How childish! How childish! Three and four times that many fully responsible human beings have lived and died...
...anthropologist tell him that $4 billion men and women were living or had lived and died, men and women above the level of the aborigine. He put it in his journal and his reflection follows: "I carried that to an anthropologist friend of mine and he said. 'How childish! How childish! Three and four times that many fully responsible human beings have lived and died...
...science and scientists are to maintain their freedom, says Synge, the layman must pitch in. He must put aside his fears and ask embarrassing questions with "the childish directness and simplicity which society and learning are so successful in eradicating...
...things out of stone. The year was 1884 and the place was Mitchell, S. Dak. Young Fraser watched the town hunchback shaping a block of soft chalkstone into an admired popular novelty: four pillars surrounding a movable ball. The boy got some chalkstone for himself and began to carve childish versions of the things that interested him most: horses, buffaloes and Indians...