With "Yankee Doodle," the Redcoats were delivering the most puerile, schoolyard insult in the schoolyard insult book.
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" Variety dismissed the film, also released in 1963, as a "totally inept shocker" and "an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of audiences.
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Or maybe it is, as it so often is with Trump, the most puerile answer: He is affronted by the suggestion that he won his election illegitimately.
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Directed by John Rando, with a choice cast of singing shtick artists, "The New Yorkers" makes the most puerile silliness seem deeply sophisticated and high sophistication look sublimely silly.
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Here we run up against the limits of Ms. Ngcobo's anti-totalizing stance: It simply asks too little of artists, and allows her to pass off the most puerile of projects as an act of resistance.
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David Wesley Ballard (February 21, 1824 – September 18, 1883) was governor of Idaho Territory from 1866 to 1870. Unlike many territorial governors of the Reconstruction Era, Ballard physically resided in his jurisdiction during his tenure.Confederate Idaho and the '... most puerile happening that was ever enacted in the history of the Territory' (accessed 21 October 2013) A physician by trade, Ballard actively practiced medicine in Boise throughout his tenure as territorial governor.
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A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. Scargill subsequently decided to move to Sheffield, and said that he had spoken to each member of staff to ask them to move to Sheffield. The staff at headquarters issued a press statement in January 1983 to deny this and to list twelve grievances against Scargill's treatment of his staff. The section under "staff procedures" details how Scargill monitored head office staff: > Mr. Scargill's vendetta against Head Office staff has at times descended to > the most puerile and paranoic [sic] levels.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 42% based on , with a weighted average rating of 4.25/10. In a contemporary review, Tube of Variety declared the film to be a "totally inept shocker", "incredibly crude and unprofessional from start to finish" and "an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of audiences". The review labeled the entire production a "fiasco", calling the screenplay (credited to Louise Downe) "senseless", and the acting "amateurish". Of Lewis' direction, camerawork, and musical composition, the review judged that he had "failed dismally on all three counts".
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Philip () was son of Alexander of Megalopolis. His father's pretended descent from Alexander the Great appears to have filled him with the most puerile schemes of ambition. On the marriage of his sister Apama with Amynander of Athamania, Philip accompanied her, and contrived to obtain great influence over the mind of Amynander, who gave him the government of Zacynthus, and allowed him to direct in great measure the administration of affairs. At the outbreak of the Roman-Seleucid War Amynander called his cognate to join him in Athamania, and Philip handed the island over to Hierocles of Agrigentum, who later betrayed it to the Achaeans.
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