Word: sophomoricism
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You're in luck because Dr. K has had a healthy sampling of Boston partying lately. Ever since this certified columnist has started avoiding the sophomoric C.S.G. like the plague, her complexion has become rosy and vibrant and her evenings chock full of sophistication. With glitsy night life options out...
Lewis's interpretative choice here may not beg too much analysis. It is funny, after all and proves to be robust. Were one so inclined, one might make the argument that it succeeds in large part because the action in Pericles is, in fact, sophomoric. Patched choppily together as the...
A magazine is a living thing. The child that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce brought into the world in March 1923 was squally, bratty, brash. The new smart aleck--its voice distinctive, sophomoric, self-assured--thrived, almost from the start: born lucky. The magazine sailed through the 1920s as if...
Nevertheless, the prejudice that we most firmly share with Luce and Hadden is a fundamental optimism. For them, optimism--a faith in progress--was not just a creed, it was a tactic for making things better. The challenges of a new millennium as well as today's fin-de-siecle...
Now that's starting to change. One reason is that those rock-era composers are getting older, and Broadway looks more enticing than it did when they were churning out Top 10 hits. But it can be tougher than it looks: telling a coherent, musically integrated story onstage is not...