Word: naivete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scriptwriter Frank Fenton, an old pro of 20 years and about 20 films in Hollywood, has written scenes and characters with the freshness-and some of the clean-limbed naiveté-of a first novelist. His dialogue is always clear and quick, and occasionally it reaches down to pluck some nerve of real human sensibility. Apart from the poem he gave one of the Confederate prisoners to speak ("Faith was ... a jungle/ Where two children trod/ Looking for violets/ Angleworms and God"), the bravos for Bravo should go largely...
...Commerce Minister, says "This law may be a mistake, but faced by the uncertainties of future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit of procrastinating until the last minute and then hustling to set matters aright. This time, when the last minute came, there was no skippertak...
Cross-Examination. It took three days for Lattimore to finish reading his statement. Then, in a more subdued atmosphere, his cross-examination began. Again the professor fell back on his self-claimed naiveté about Communism and Communists...
...grown up enough to know why Carl behaved as he did, and how much she had to do with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with a simplicity that only occasionally slips into naiveté. Clara is no major work of fiction, but it is an honest book on a ticklish subject, and it has the virtue of being about ordinary people, well understood...
Said Streit: "The naiveté, the equivocation and the denials of the coaches and their assistants concerning their knowledge of gambling, recruiting and subsidizing would be comical were they not so despicable...