Search Details

Word: sophomoricism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Sir: After reading TIME'S account of the sophomoric views of Sir Julian Huxley, one almost despairs of hoping that he and his better known brother Aldous will ever grow up to the size of their intellects. HERBERT O. WILLIAMS Arlington, Va.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Novelist Auchincloss, who has written this sort of book before (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Venus in Sparta), knows his forms and his upper-crust Long Islanders. His description of Esther and the other Parmelee Cove women pursuing the adulterers like a chorus of Eumenides has the rasp of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Affluent Society | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

What Is Chastity? Originally planned as part of Comfort Me with Apples (TIME, April 30, 1953). the new book almost seems like a double take of the earlier novel. The hero is again Chick Swallow, the poor man's Freud, who writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adrift in a Laundromat | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Bordeaux University's Professor Jean Ribérau-Gayon contributed such items as: "The richness of the grape in vitamins of group B has not been stressed sufficiently. Commercial wine is considerably richer in vitamins than commercial grape juice of the same vintage." (Bordeaux happens to be synonymous with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Thy Stomach's Sake | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

What College Bowl suffers from is a sophomoric strain on the basketball analogy. A referee's shrill whistle signals half time and the commercial. A student audience is encouraged to cheer each correct answer. After Northwestern was defeated by Georgetown a few weeks back, Northwestern students hanged in effigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Basketball Scholarship | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next