Word: naivete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ingenuous view of the Nazi war machine. As late as 1941, he insists, Hitler had "the opportunity to refashion Europe on a basis of freedom, justice and equality." That is like saying that the jaguar, in mid-attack, could change into an antelope-and it explains much about German naiveté. Anyone who could believe that could believe anything. Mayo Mohs
...people"-teenagers who are paying for their habits. Moreover, the greater impersonality of campuses, caused by the expanded enrollment in the 1960s, makes it easier for intruders to masquerade as students. In addition, says Security Director Paul Doebel of the University of Illinois: "We encounter a great deal of naiveté about security among students, as well as hostility at any mention of tighter controls." At Northern Illinois University, a security officer was recently scheduled to discuss the crime problem at a dorm-but no one bothered to come to hear him. Explains Harvard Vice President Stephen Hall: "Students could...
...told Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber. According to her, that is why Henry the K. likes to spend evenings in the company of Jill St. John, Mario Thomas, Raquel Welch, Samantha Eggar, Sally Kellerman, et al. What bothers Kissinger is the ladies' motivations. "Is there no end to my naiveté?" he asked after discovering that one starlet was boasting about her dates with him. "I forget that they are actresses. They are only attracted to my power-but what happens when that power ends? They're not going to sit around and play chess with...
...Clean" high marks on environment and almost everything else. He is, the report notes, "a crack prosecuting attorney" possessed of "native intelligence," courage and an ability to weave a kind of seamless web out of seemingly inharmonious strands of ideas." It does rap an occasional knuckle-charging Muskie with naiveté on the war, for instance-but it restores much of the Honest Abe image Muskie enjoyed before the primaries...
...sharp focus, remarking on incongruities that a resident takes for granted. Thus she recognized-and skillfully skewered -American bungling in Viet Nam (1967), though her later Hanoi (1968), likewise based on firsthand reporting, suffered from a Lincoln Steffens I-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works naiveté. In Medina, her third short book of war reportage, she turns an account of the acquittal of Lieut. William Calley's immediate superior into a disquieting meditation on the meaning...