Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some gallerygoers refused to believe that the paintings conveyed anything at all. Morris' paintings do look like those of a child who knows too much and is unhappy about it, and they do develop from the childish process of doodling...
Walter C. Carrington '52, president of the Society for Minority Rights, said he thought it "unfortunate that the Young Republican Club, which could do so much good, should stoop to such rather childish tactics." Carrington added that he thought an open hearing would be a good thing...
...know," she said, "you're supposed to let me read a copy before you send it to the papers. Now I think that's rather childish. You just tell me what stories you're sending in . . . before you send them...
...discover just how much dough could be squeezed out of Junior-a process approached in much the same spirit as that with which the Texas Rangers squeezed information out of Mexican bandits-it seemed improbable that the growing nervous system could stand much more stimulation, or that the tender, childish gullet could gulp down more bread, breakfast food, candy or soft drinks...
...this came television, which not only assaulted the childish ear, but (in the words of Fred Allen) threatened to change Americans into creatures with eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. Last week countless hordes of U.S. children not only went to the movies once a week, listened to their radio favorites among 27 children's network programs (often reading comic books and blowing bubble gum at the same time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens...