Word: naivet
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...that. Said the admiral at his press conference: "Maybe I am naive. But I feel our Communism is a different Communism. Because of his rich patriotic heritage, no Venezuelan would accept orders from abroad." Such full-gushing benediction of Venezuela's bumptious Communists did indeed show an ideological naiveté. But it showed also a practical shrewdness that any man who hoped to become President of Venezuela should certainly possess...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...
...because the West has been disarmed but because the present balance is roughly equal. I would not like to be responsible for the outcome if we were to abandon the balance." Said the New York Times: "The Soviet strategy emphasizes again Moscow's real aims and exposes the naiveté of those who, undaunted by the failure to win Stalin's cooperation after the last war by giving him all he wanted, now propose to win Khrushchev's cooperation by offering him nuclear disarmament, 'disengagement' and the status...
...really only an accident of Ross's naiveté that allowed one of the most famous of New Yorker cartoons to get into the magazine. Reports Thurber: "He was depressed for weeks after the appearance of a full-page Arno depicting a man and a girl on a road in the moonlight, the man carrying the back seat of an automobile. [Caption: 'We want to report a stolen car.'] 'Why didn't somebody tell me what it meant?' he asked...
...with mine) Rand, 52, left the Soviet Union for the U.S. in 1926, rehearsed for this weird performance with The Fountainhead (1943), in which she rhapsodized the lone genius and his fight against the common herd. She deserves credit at least for imagination; unfortunately, it is tied to ludicrous naiveté. There could have been something exhilarating about the capitalists' revolt-except for the fact that what Author Rand presents is not so much capitalism as its hideous caricature. In fact, if her intention were to destroy faith in capitalism, she could not have written a book better suited...