Word: naivet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...documents, which were examined by TIME, are among the papers obtained from the Schiavone company by Frank Smist Jr., 31, a University of Oklahoma student who is writing a doctoral dissertation on congressional investigations. Smist's air of naiveté apparently persuaded Ronald Schiavone, the company's chairman, and Theodore Geiser, its chief counsel, that Smist would consider the Donovan probes an example of investigative abuse. Accordingly, they asked the company's top detective, Robert Shortley, to turn his records over to Smist. Upon reading the papers, the graduate student was appalled by the company...
...threat by Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan against Reporter Milton Coleman. I immediately recognized it as religious metaphor. But it was dangerous language because of the ability to misinterpret it. I think it was more out of naiveté than meanness...
Your story about General Paul X. Kelley's conversation with a wounded Marine [Nov. 7] reveals the general's naiveté. In the language of the Marine Corps, Semper Fi does not mean "always faithful." The expression connotes something rather different...
...That kind of screwball is still pitched effectively by Monty Python, but it is not a sign of seniority. Virginia Woolf believed that Ring Lardner had "talents of a remarkable order." And so he had. But the episode from You Know Me Al leans hard on misspelling and false naiveté, favorite devices of the novice: "Florrie thinks she has got to have a new dress though she has got two changes of cloths now and I don't know what she can do with another...
...time for a new direction, if not for such a big risk. Asher admits to feeling a lot better about the project after Riddle, the 62-year-old grand master of pop orchestration, agreed to sign on. Riddle, who speaks of Ronstadt's "strong, sure, pure tone, a naiveté and a freshness and a little-girlishness which were very appealing," had worked on several seminal Sinatra albums of the 1950s, including Only the Lonely. His work with Ronstadt may be hard for him to describe ("I don't know what kind of arrangements I wrote for Linda...