Word: guilelessly
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Leopold Bloom (for it is he) stands silent, with bowed head before those young guileless eyes. What a brute he had been! At it again?...She walked with a certain quiet dignity characteristic of her but with care and very slowly because...
...Indian has taken an economic beating at the hands of the white man since that guileless tribe gave up Manhattan for $24 in trinkets. Now a band of enterprising Navajos in Arizona hopes to Indian-wrestle some of their ancestors' money back. The group plans to build a $10 million resort on the shores of Lake Powell featuring a full-scale gambling casino. They should mine plenty of yellow iron-if the Arizona authorities let them get away with...
...Corbusier once said that a dream x 1,000,000 = chaos. Banham believes that Los Angeles disproves the equation. To him, the city embodies the reality of the American Dream to combine an urban homestead with suburban good living. Does the city thus seem a bit too eager and guileless, therefore comic? In answer, Banham quotes another Los Angeles observer, Nathanael West: "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance...
...threads? On one hand it all appears so calculated-and, for the many Easterners, often writers, who have sold themselves to Hollywood during its more prosperous history, that's been the dominant theme-while at the same time, for the majority of the participants, it is also naive and guileless...
What Nixon wants Connally to do in Washington is probably not to make economic policy anyway, especially at this notably difficult time for the economy (see BUSINESS). Instead, Connally should serve him well as a far more forceful defender of that policy before Congress than was David Kennedy, a guileless Mormon who will move to a Cabinet-level job in international finance at the State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what...