Word: naivete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Chiang apportions blame among Russian maneuvers, Japanese aggression, Chinese dupes and traitors, U.S. naiveté-including Yalta's giveaway of Manchuria and the disastrous U.S. attempt (the Marshall mission) to mediate between the Nationalists and the Reds. But he does not dodge his own responsibility, charges himself with the basic fault of again and again having dealt with Russia and the Communists as men of good will. Each time the Chinese Reds were nearly defeated, "coexistence"' again saved them: "We were overconfident . . . We erred in being too lenient...
...Ladykillers. Master Criminal Alec Guinness, stumbling over the naiveté of sweet old Katie Johnson, drops the picture and the loot (TIME, March...
...Japanese who found his way to America several years before Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to the world in 1854. Japanese Author Hisakazu Kaneko has turned up in Manjiro an engaging subject, and has written his story in a style that has the warmth and charm of genuine naivet...
...dive" I chuckled over (TIME'S naiveté) was Al Sarena's mining of timber-but best expressed by Congresswoman Edith Green's quatrain...