Word: naivet
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...send, but it can only carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read of the Red Guards, and look forward to a bright future in China...
Cringe Benefits. Achebe tells his story through the mouth of Odili Samalu, a sprightly rapscallion-part idealist, part young man on the make-whom it would be tempting to call a colored Candide, except that Odili has no innocence at all, only a naiveté that makes a farce both of his convictions and his ambition. He is, in fact, perhaps the most engaging character in fiction about Africa since the hero of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, who was factotum to a white colonial official...
...faulty logic and incredible naiveté of Letter Writer Thome [July 22] is shocking, but illuminates the reasoning of the nonthinking, highly vocal minority...
...that he had "nothing to hide," Thomas Dodd had a lot to explain. Defending himself before six of his peers last week against charges of misconduct, the senior Senator from Connecticut lengthily and indignantly denied any wrongdoing. Taken at face value, his testimony bared instead an unexpected streak of naivet...
...LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. Historian-Journalist Ryan recounts the fall of Hitler's capital and details the Allied blunders and political naiveté that allowed Stalin to seize Berlin as a prize...