It's not you and it's not the world. It's the idea that we have to protect children from reality.

This would mean that Hitler's attack on Russia, The "Atlantic Wall," the Vanguard space satellite, your attempt to put the moves on that young lady, that terrible moment in chemistry when the experiment exploded, the cake in which you used cement instead of flour, and a host of other things big and small, were "deferred successes."

"Well, folks, the home team was deferentially successful in their bid to take the national championship today."

"The President's policy in Urkganistan is a deferred success."