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Need one add that there is no naiveté in Guston's figurative work that is not deliberate, and no clumsiness that is not feigned? Between the early and the late '70s the scope of his vision and the resonance of his images deepened steadily; those phalanxes of knobby knees and boots like Uccello horseshoes, those bloodshot cyclopean eyes and gut piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait...
...there is more than just naiveté involved in West Germany's dilemma about its policy toward the Soviet Union. The country is at a watershed. Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "The Federal Republic is simply much more affected than most other European countries by the state of East-West relations. As it has profited from détente between East and West more than most other Western countries, so it will suffer from a decline or breakdown of détente more than most others...
Carter rightly calls Reagan naive for thinking the Soviets can be intimidated into accepting deep cuts in their existing arsenal by the threat of a future U.S. buildup. But were it not for Carter's own similar naiveté four years ago, SALT II would almost certainly have been signed-and ratified-early in his Administration, long before its passage was "linked" to Soviet behavior in Cuba and Afghanistan. Such linkage was always dubious, since SALT benefits both sides...
...Gary Poole led his disco dance troupe through a series of exotic routines. A male dancer hauled a woman, clad in a white jumpsuit, around the stage on a leash. After the dance was over, Anderson remarked to the 400 partygoers: "I'm guilty of a certain Midwestern naiveté. I've never seen anything quite like this before...
...accepting Cyrus Vance's resignation, President Carter continues to confuse such qualities as integrity and sincerity with competence. That this naiveté about personnel matters should persist so long gives rise to doubts about the man's ability to learn from experience...