Word: sophomoricism
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Obscenities & Attacks. Unfettered by faculty advisers, a few underground papers sometimes contain childish obscenities and sophomoric attacks on school officials. Principals and teachers tend to deplore the underground journals, frequently ban them from school grounds or suspend the editors. Sometimes, however, the journalistic excellence of the papers wins out. In...
Sir: Your article regarding the dismissal of California's President Clark Kerr [Jan. 27] is disturbing in its lack of perception. Dr. Kerr most certainly did not "lose his cool" during the 1964 demonstrations at Berkeley, nor has he since. If anything, he lost the deserved, rational support of...
Ramparts began publishing in Menlo Park, Calif., which was, as Hinckle puts it, "a ridiculous place to publish a magazine." So it moved to one of those topless streets in San Francisco's New Left Bohemia. The staffers fill the magazine with clever if sophomoric humor. Public figures distasteful...
"We are not a patient people," says Hubert Humphrey and most of the world agrees. Americans are seen-and see themselves-as restless and driven. New skyscrapers go up at the drop of a mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with...
"We're In Trouble." Last week the Justices all but begged for mercy during the oral arguments in three obscenity cases involving no fewer than 144 publications. How could the court rule without reading all of them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl...