Word: naivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon. But the President himself, with a peculiar combination of frankness and naiveté, offered a plausible explanation. Said he in a speech at Batavia, N.Y.: "I think they want to find out whether all this propaganda that has been put out-about the President not being able to do his job-is true...
Only one group-64% of the private-school graduates-felt satisfied with the sex education they had received before coming to Colgate. (Walker was undecided whether to credit this attitude to better sex education in private schools-or blame it on "youthful naiveté.") Two older, sadder and presumably wiser groups-married men (100%) and ex-G.I.s (83%) -reported that they had not known enough answers to "meet [their] needs...
Israel calls the German Jew a yecki (roughly: squarehead), laughs at his naiveté. Many of the yecki are physicians (of that great, devoted band of German-Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish...
...Your article about Alcoholics Anonymous [TIME, Dec. 22] was highly interesting. However, the type of naiveté demonstrated in some of its statements is always astounding to those who have the Christian point of view. The doctor wonderingly reported a startling discovery: the cure of an alcoholic was effected by his "surrender to a higher power." For centuries Christians have been witnessing that the surrender "to a higher power" is the only successful approach to all personal problems. And for centuries before Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated...
...this is made easier by Mr. DeMille's ability to make shot after shot bulge with energy. A suggestion about a white-skinned female slave-an angle that first inspired DeMille to make the picture-is played with vigorous naiveté for not-quite-censorable leers and laughs. Miss Goddard, stripped down within an inch of the Johnston Office, is tethered for torture by the Indians and writhes exquisitely. She also takes the bath which has for many years been virtually a DeMille signature. It cannot compare with Claudette Colbert's champion dip, as Poppaea (The Sign...