Word: naivet
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Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...last week and read seriously from the first page of his brief: "The noise you hear is my knees knocking. They haven't knocked like this since the day I asked my wife to marry me." To cover their embarrassment, the British lawyers smiled. The Russians shrugged; such naiveté was just one more thing they did not understand about Americans. But the Russians were not surprised when Harris went on to make a highly effective argument. They have be come openly enthusiastic about the way Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his assistants are conducting the U.S. case against...
...York Herald Tribune scowled at the churchmen's "naiveté, not to say . . . lack of information." Captain James Vest of New Albany, Ind., a wounded veteran of Bataan, said flatly: "Those ministers . . . didn't see what the Japs did to the Filipinos and the natives of New Guinea. They don't know what the hell the score...
...Credit & Naiveté. In their first six months, Purdy & Rouse had more troubles than clients. But they learned the credit business the hard way. Credit managers refused to accept C.A.C. checks (they thought they could squeeze more money out of debtors themselves). Sharp-dealing installment houses cold-shouldered C.A.C., preferred to keep customers in debt buying shoddy goods at high prices. Loan sharks fought them as competitors. Detroit companies, suspicious of a racket, refused to mail them employes' checks...
...There are actually people in Germany who believe the bank note press has lost its terror because, thanks to foreign exchange control, its consequences cannot be read in the daily dollar quotation. It is difficult to discuss such naivet...