Word: naivet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically, not narrowly, sceptical of Freud's unsavory deductions; gorgeously, not bitterly, ironical over Wells' exuberant absurdities. His deprecation of the naiveté of Sir A. C. Doyle, "the open-air man," is as painless as his attack is concentrated upon the lubricity, cynicism, "impurity" and "degeneracy" of Anatole France...
...October issue of The Arts contains several photographs of the woolly boats on their woolly oceans, giving an excellent idea not only of the naiveté of their treatment but of their high decorative possibilities...