Word: sophomoricism
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The other story, "Report on the Threatened City" is simply idiotic, and for a writer of Lessing's age and status, unpardonably sophomoric. Extra-terrestrial visitors-from Mars, no doubt-have this to say of planet earth": the young take to drugs, the old to convention, in five years the...
But perhaps it is not really unfortunate that politically active students have ignored the question of educational reform. Had they reacted to problems in education with the same sophomoric lack of moderation and good judgment with which they approach the sundry causes thrown up to us by activist groups, it...
Oui's first effort is obviously for the boys. The graphics are good and reminiscent of Playboy, the nudes largely European and evocative of Penthouse. There are features on French wines and women, fashions in leather and rough-country motorbiking. The oddest item is a gross featurette that shows...
Some think that the Administration, if it did indeed set up the operation, was after something else. There is, says one insider, "almost a paranoia" in the Government about all of the leaks of confidential papers and memoranda to Jack Anderson and others; someone trying to find the source of...
Finally, Novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon...