Word: girlish
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...adulation of the students, becomes comedy, character study and charming fable all in one. In a brief, seemingly unambitious book, without spelling anything out, Green gets a great deal said, and more understood, about what people are really like. The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them. Even the pall of living under an unimaginative socialist regime is understood without being underscored...
...libretto went through four editions in a few weeks. She wrote less & less. In her mid-40s, stirred by rumblings of World War II, she called her muse to the colors, but seldom got beyond the rear areas. The respectable versifying of her last years never recaptured the fine girlish frenzy...
That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...
...fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some things, but will gladly dress themselves up as toy dolls, rabbits or gypsies for annual Tree Day. They are fearful of seeming too girlish, but will happily make themselves look aged 13 running their annual hoop race. Wealthy girls pretend to be living on a shoestring; grinds pretend to be ladies of leisure. To be fashionable, one must be casual...
Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...