Word: amateurish
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...Band's major flaw throughout the concert was an amateurish negligence about watching the conductor. There is little one can complain about in Walker's conducting; it is to him that much of the music's vigor and sensitivity of phrasing must be attributed. However, one felt he had to fight to keep the Band at the tempos he wanted...
...designed to take advantage of the orchestra's size, but it also tended to expose the orchestra's weaknesses and shortcomings. Had Hathaway been more sensitive to the real potential of his orchestra, there might have been some fine results. As it was, the Bach society's performance--energetic, amateurish, on top of the music as much as laboring under its weight--was Harvard music at its most typical, if not at its best...
Strong Corroboration. To shake the Greenglass story, Sobell's lawyers attacked the Nagasaki-bomb sketch (TIME, Aug. 12) with affidavits from two ex-Manhattan Project scientists. Both scorned the sketch as amateurish, inaccurate, a naive "caricature" of the bomb, which could not possibly have aided the Russians...
Incongruously good photography, and an excellent performance by Anouk Aimee, serve as counterweights for this film's amateurish bumbling. Without them and without the recurrent outcry of an unspeakable musical score, La Fuga's every audience might find merciful numbness from what now is a laser ray of cruelly focused tedium...
Around the middle of last year, 500 copies of as amateurish-looking T5-page literary magazine with the vegusly menacing name of scorpion appeared in the Square. It sold for a dollar a copy, which was 20 coast more than it cost to print, and Robert Justice '66, its creator, lost 300 dollars. Whatever readership the first issue acquired had deserted both Cambridge and scorpion by the time the second came out is June...