Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horseshoe nails, licked the eggbeater and looked at stereopticon slides for entertainment, any tailgate medicine spieler ("Get away, boys, you bother me") could hold them spellbound. Even so, only the more daring of the barefoot set got within range of the flares and banjo music; parents felt that the childish brain should be allowed to age at least as long as good whisky before being exposed to such works of the devil...
Barcelona-born, black-eyed Victoria got her first nod of approval from University of Barcelona professors. She was the daughter of a campus caretaker, and to the delight of the students and the annoyance of the teachers, her childish singing could be heard in the classrooms. But the professors recognized her talent, urged her to study at Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo. She did, for three years, then quit to work by herself. In 1947, assured by admirers that she could walk away with the first prize in Geneva's International Contest, she tried, and won the unanimous...
...Childish Faith. It is in the interest of this country, and of all other peace-and freedom-loving countries, to restore the balance among nations that was so improvidently destroyed. In support of this thesis, permit me to propose a simple question. Suppose that as the war drew to a close, we had offered Mr. Stalin whatever he wanted. What would he have been likely to request...
Well, with childish faith and quite unmindful of the consequences, we granted Mr. Stalin three out of four of these requests. We destroyed Germany and thus opened up that country and its former sphere of influence to Russian infiltration . . . We destroyed Japan and thus opened up that part of the world to Russia's aggressive designs. We demobilized our powerful military establishment...
...some sane art in your pages? Why must we always look at psychopathic doodles of the queer, the charlatan, the tongue-in-cheek jests of artists who can draw or paint and the childish "primitives" of those who cannot...