Word: naivet
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...value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim to "the classic pattern of Arab duplicity and American naiveté." The A.I.P.A.C. has nevertheless asserted that "there were positive points in the President's initiative...
...Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From the Center of the Earth supply in valuable truths to counter the diseases that afflict so many tourists: romanticism and naivet...
Leading the nymphet brigade is Aileen Quinn, 10, chosen over 9,000 other applicants for the title role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer...
...nonviolent world is the only sure way of avoiding an eventual nuclear holocaust. To make that statement is not "dreamlike and fantastic." On the contrary, as Schell points out, to imagine that we can rid the world of nuclear weapons in the present political order is the ultimate naivet...
...President Carter's ingratiating table talk with China's Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping. Why is it that U.S. leaders are so willing to forgive the crimes of those smooth-talking Chinese Communists while at the same time they are talking tough to the Soviet Union? American naiveté concerning Chinese totalitarianism knows no bounds...