My parents sent me to Catholic school in Bushwick, then high school in Manhattan, to keep me away from the local kids and their precocious knowledge of malas palabras — bad words.
Marcus and Abby Glass, two of the heroes of The Revelations, take their surname from Salinger's precocious family.
This commercial is rancid in every way, from its precocious brats straight out of Quirky Central Casting, to their mopey grey-haired dad, to the heartless use of bereavement and guilt to sell hair colouring.
Starting in the late seventies, doctors began prescribing these drugs for children who suffered from extremely precocious puberty.
From that precocious start in Nice, he was admitted into Mr Chirac's political and social orbit.
Elizabeth Taylor, whom America has watched evolve on film from a precocious little girl into a sensuous and serious actress, is to be honored tonight by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Such lapses, however, should not distract attention from this precocious debut — they certainly will not stop this novel from becoming one of this summer's hot literary reads.
These emerged from his precocious career in Argentina, which included setting up the country's statistics office and central bank, as Edgar Dosman, a Canadian academic, ably describes.
He is an actor who at 34 years old seems eerily no different from the precocious teenager who appeared in Wes Anderson's Rushmore in 1998.
"But if there's nothing else to be done, you get on with it". She's been getting on with it, and overcoming obstacles to it, from a precocious age.
