Word: callowness
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...course, it really doesn't matter if a manager is callow or experienced, mellow or intense. Winning matters. If you win, everybody thinks you're a genius. If you lose, you're an idiot. And you're history. Growing up in New York, I watched George Steinbrenner, that noted evaluator of human nature, decide that Billy Martin was smart, then stupid, then smart, then stupid, smart, stupid, smart, then stupid again...
...Cheney is a political generation younger than Bush. Yet he conveys a sense of assurance and gravitas -- what the British call bottom -- that the callow Quayle may never attain...
...information -- by F.D.R., by Churchill, for example. Such leaders gave an eloquence and resonance to the Old Paradigm -- a powerful accumulation of moral experience. It is possible to feel wistful sometimes for those profound frames of reference while wandering around in the New Paradigm, which is almost by definition callow. You must not let daylight in upon magic. Now that information is transnational, daylight pours in. Certain shadowy and thunderous effects upon which charisma and old leadership depended have now become impossible. The New Paradigm is not haunted by the furies and ghosts of its parents. It looks upon...
...anyone who has seen the mini-hit film Metropolitan, the setting will be instantly familiar. This large, chastely furnished library, in a town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was where the callow preppies of "Sally Fowler's rat pack" were filmed during their postdance gabfests. On a Wednesday evening the place is filled with grownup baby boomers, many of them huddled at a small bar near the door. But the talk, for the most part, isn't about Hamptons and debentures. A petite blond writer in an electric red dress speculates for a guest about what might happen...
...credit is not Baker's style. The trait predates his 20 months at the State Department. During the 1988 presidential campaign, Baker labored to keep his fingerprints off the controversial Willie Horton ads, although as campaign manager he was ultimately responsible for their repeated airing. When Bush selected the callow Dan Quayle as his running mate, Baker distanced himself from the choice. When the U.S. invaded Panama last December, Baker was scarcely to be seen. When the Administration was accused of appeasing China after the Beijing massacre, Baker lied publicly about secretive U.S. contacts between high-level Chinese officials...