Word: sophomoricism
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While conceding that criminal prosecutions are never politically disinterested, and that genuinely "evil" men such as Mafia chiefs should be pursued in all possible ways, Higgins sometimes vacillates into a sophomoric ethical relativism. He hints that there is no difference between John Ehrlichmann's decision to screw Daniel Ellsberg because...
Coach John Higginson offered his reason for Princeton's decline yesterday. "Princeton hasn't lost its personnel as much as. It's lost its sophomoric enthusiasm. It certainly was a sudden loss of momentum," he said.
For the most part, though, Friedman's attempts at humor, outrageously funny in his first album, here are less outrageous and much less funny, usually degenerating into clumsy tastelessness or aimless wisecracking. His glorification of Jewish machismo, "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," is embarrassingly sophomoric. "Somethin's...
Because Lysistrata was written two thousand years ago by Aristophanes, it seems "bawdy" and "ribald" more than sophomoric and thin. There's nothing except sexual silliness to its plot about a smart Athenian woman, Lysistrata (Judith Listfield) who forms a league between all Greek women to force their husbands--by...
Nonetheless, the architects endowed Harvard with a veritable firmament of bannisters. At the top of the list is Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to...