Word: naivete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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...