Word: naivet
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...from public bars; lounges open onto lanais heavy with the smell of orange trees. The setting is comfortable enough for the local colony, for whom it is a kind of family club and also affords a perfect stage for starlets or would-be starlets who display themselves with calculated naiveté around the pool, reasonably confident that one producer-director-executive is behind one pair of the watching dark glasses...
...Macleod's belief that Munich was a shrewd play for time. Chamberlain actually seemed convinced that it was a great, enduring master stroke that, as he boasted, would assure "peace with honor, peace for our time." Too often, Author Macleod's biography soft-pedals Chamberlain's naiveté and glosses over his smugness and arrogance, such as his unfeeling verdict on Hitler's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia: "A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing...
...with most sketchbooks, their quality varies. The Kennedy Circle is the most variable since it was gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when he tells of his bewilderment at discovering that some admirals and generals do leak secrets to reporters. The Kennedy Government, a one-man effort by Stan Opotowsky, author (The Longs of Louisiana) and political writer for the New York Post, is fairly cohesive, but his partisanship gleams through...
...differences: "It's simply that they are facing what I am hiding from." And Fabrizio's father, devoted though he is to his fat, pious wife, is unmistakably attracted to Mrs. Johnson. Italian practicality, ruthlessness, an odd breed of unblinkered humaneness, scrapes blatantly against U.S. generosity and naivet...
...Committee Chairman F. (for Felix) Edward Hébert of Louisiana wanted Rickover to name some names. Rickover parried and philosophized. Some Navy men, said he, are "impressed with outside experts, especially those with 'Dr.' in front of their names." Then there is the problem of "the naiveté of most retired officers" who go to work in industry. "From the time they entered the Naval Academy, they've led a sheltered existence. Their friends are all in the service." As for himself, Rickover declared that "there never has been one single incident where any influence...