Word: naivetics
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Such soaring naiveté from so shrewd a cookie is hard to buy. Mo's defense of her husband as the contrite hero who saved the Republic singlehanded is no easier to purchase. Yet with the help of TIME Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, Mo has fashioned something more than a palpitating apologia. She was, after all, an accidental witness to some high crimes and misdemeanors, and her views of the pressure-cooked conformity of the Nixon White House are mordant and telling. After a circumspect New Year's Eve party with two other uptight Administration couples, Mo notes...
...still carries an element of naiveté around with him. He does not always understand the folkways of people with less than a hundred million in the bank. In his first months in Washington, he offended the delicate sense of parliamentary justice of Alabama's Senator James B. Allen by failing to recognize him on the Senate floor. He piled up more painful cliches about Jerry Ford than even Ford's speech-writers could have coined, and he continued to talk about American purpose when the hot subject was the contents of Henry Kissinger's garbage cans...
...friendly administration of Mayor Robert Wagner, the unions made their biggest gains under Lindsay. On entering office in 1966, he was confronted with a strike of transit workers that brought public transportation to a virtual standstill for twelve days. He mishandled the event with a combination of political naiveté and personal arrogance; the mayor-and the city-never really recovered...
...Stage/West cast is competent without being proficient, though Rombola's Cat has a disarmingly baffled naiveté and Scott's Memphis-Cleopatra is both perky and voluptuous. As of now, Marcus Brutus is more than a first draft and less than a finished drama, but certainly worth the doing as an intriguing work in progress...
...American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove's was no exception, and some of his paintings, particularly in the mid-'30s, poignantly suggest an imagination hobbled by its lack of prototypes. But a certain naiveté and brusqueness were, in any case, bound up with Dove's sense of aesthetic probity. It was part of what he called "going native." Dove was a very American painter: not only did he value his Americanism as such, but he equated it with dynamism, the very principle...