Word: naivetã
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...bottom line: never fear, soon the Yard will go back to smelling the way it always does—that rare combination of naivet??, pretension, and the collegiate spirit...
...play, The Tempest, the character Miranda’s exclamation, “O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!” is widely regarded as proof of her naivet??. I, however, today on Class Day, cannot help but echo her words. Here, the more that I’ve learned, and the more that I’ve lived, the more that I’m left in wonder at the interconnectedness of things, and the beauty around...
...often engages in diplomatic efforts with unfriendly nations, sometimes even in the midst of conflict (such as in the case of former President Reagan’s willingness to talk to Moscow during the Cold War). However, Obama’s proposal to do so with no preconditions is naivet?? at its finest. In fact, even the Iranians themselves admit that negotiations provide more time for Iran to come closer to creating a nuclear weapon as they stonewall negotiations with the U.S. and other Western nations. It allows them to purchase approval of their domestic policy on the cheap...
...girl-talk affirm her status as an adolescent rendered sexually unattainable by both law and taboo. The magazine’s most recent cover relishes its role as an extreme-makeover guru, peddling a sort of sexual plastic surgery. Pushing their Gossip Girl personas’ decided lack of naivet?? to a new extreme, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester jointly lick a cone topped with two scoops of ice cream in an unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake’s innocent “come-hither” gaze and her prominent cleavage combine with the child-like...
...Iraq war. Generals David Petraeus and Ray Odierno are the flawed but authentic heroes who pushed through a strategy to suppress Iraq's festering civil war; the losers are warlords like Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, who agitated for the invasion and then lost control over its outcome through naivet?? or ineptitude. Much of the Beltway intrigue here was reported by Ricks' Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward in last year's The War Within. Military strategies--even successful ones--are, like laws and sausages, not something civilians necessarily want to see made. Still, Ricks' reporting and insight from the front...