Word: sophomoricism
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Sir: As one whose position requires that he grapple with the problems of criminal law, may I congratulate you upon a splendid and objective analysis in your essay, "The Revolution in Criminal Justice" [July 16]. Your objectivity is an encouraging contrast to the frequent emotional and sophomoric treatments of this...
Sir: As a college student, I firmly believe in our right to question everything. Our youth entitles us to be idealistic and perhaps rebellious; the state of the world that we are about to inherit entitles us to be a little cynical. But I fear that the hardest lesson some...
As honest-to-gosh westerns go, Cat Ballon is disgraceful. As a shibboleth-shattering spoof, it dumps all the heroic traditions of horse opera into a gag bag, shakes thoroughly, and pulls out one of the year's jolliest surprises. Occasionally the fun seems sophomoric, and a few maladroit...
Obviously the Groomkirby household is no ordinary one. This whole sappy movie may, in fact, be too extraordinary for its own good. Based on N. F. Simpson's London play and billed as England's jackknife dive into the Cinema of the Absurd, Pendulum shuns nearly every requisite...
Sir: Although not an Afro-American, but nevertheless an American Negro, 1 was outraged by your reporting of the Congo massacre, with your sophomoric generalizations on the savagery of the blacks on the African continent. If Americans were able to remember their own history, they would find these Simbas no...