Word: childishness
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...Harvey Mansfield being "insensitive" when he conveniently left out a host of explanations for grade inflation--and decided instead to blame the whole thing on TFs' alleged fears of giving Black students low grades? Probably so--he's always seemed to derive some childish pleasure from pissing off groups he dislikes. Last year, for example, he called Women's Studies a "little ladies' sewing circle...
...mean mother (Irene Worth); her 36-year-old daughter (Mercedes Ruehl), ! whom the mother has contrived to keep in a state of childish dependency; and a rebel son (Richard Dreyfuss), who has become a gangster: confine just these three most colorful members of the Kurnitz family in a small space (the apartment above Mom's candy store in Yonkers, circa 1942), and claustrophobia begins to itch at one's soul. Add a couple of lively boys, Jay and Arty (Brad Stoll and Mike Damus), forced by circumstances to live with Grandma for the worst part of a year...
...said the party was marred by the "childish" behavior of several members of the Lampoon, who distributed the parody there...
...They acted very childish. We respect their work very much and it was dismaying to see that fellow students could be so rude," Hsu said...
...April 9, 1993. While I normally appreciate Conley's daring lampoons of everything from Harvard life to the Clinton Administration, I found his personal attack on "Natasha" to be a grave misuse of your newspaper. Even the cartoon page should not serve as a pulpit for the sort of childish vituperation perpetrated by Conley...