Word: schoolboyish
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...indulgence. As the great Russian scrutinizes the great Spaniard, revisionism becomes the order of the day. Sancho's celebrated proverbs are in fact "not very mirth provoking . . . The corniest modern gag is funnier." Don Quixote's attempts to act like an old cavalier show "a rather limited schoolboyish imagination in the way of pranks." As for the author, "Cervantes. . . seems to have had alternate phases of lucidity . . . and sloppy vagueness, much as his hero was mad in patches." Don and squire wander and blunder through Spain, tilting at customs and rituals, obscure priests and famous windmills. En route...
With his ageless, cigar-store Indian's face, his schoolboyish cleverness and his endless role playing-political poet, lyric poet, religious poet-W. H. Auden was doomed to be regarded as the most promising poet in the English language. Right up to the threshold of old age. In fact, from the moment his first book of poems appeared when he was 23 and just down from Oxford, Auden was permanently assigned the prospect of becoming T. S. Eliot's successor. That has turned out to be practically a lifetime career...
These tortured meditations of Senator Robert Kennedy's assassin jump in a schoolboyish scribble across the 9-by-12-in. pages of the spiral-bound notebooks that served Sirhan Bishara Sirhan as a diary. Meandering on and on in an unpunctuated stream of consciousness, they speak of death. My determination to eliminate R.F.K. is becoming more the more of an unshakable obsession, wrote Sirhan...
Great men sometimes have idiot children. Novelist William Faulkner, for instance, produced two volumes of verse. Republished under one cover after being out of print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...
...copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...