Word: amateurish
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...great race all right-for a scrap dealer. Otherwise, the 50th Indianapolis 500 was the most amateurish, confused and frustrating auto race in the history of the famed "Brickyard." Fully one-third of the 33-car field was wiped out on the very first turn; the yellow caution light was on for 41 minutes during the 31 hours; and only seven cars were still running at the finish. The winner of what was supposed to be the fastest race in history was less a hero than a survivor: British Grand
...opposition seems to be a built-in defense mechanism. Jim Hill saw the proposed orgy as a "foot-in-the-door" threat, and feared future administrations would weaken farther until rock was at WHRB to stay. "College stations with a high percentage of rock-tend to be very amateurish," he say with distaste. Amateurish is nothing WHRB wants to be. "I like it [rock]," he says, "but rock on FM would be a travesty. It would bring us new personalities and new talent--if we could fit it in with our image, but we can't." The listeners...
Sharp Curtailment. The Congress, first to be held under the Brezhnev-Kosygin duumvirate, made it clear that the two men prefer to concentrate on domestic issues. They gave Khrushchev full raps for "amateurish" planning, stressed gadget Communism, which, with its emphasis on consumer goods, outdoes Khrushchev's goulash Communism. Among the production goals for the new five-year plan: 18.5 million refrigerators, 30 million radios and phonographs, 27 million television sets and 2,500,000 personal autos. Kosygin's message also disclosed how widely the free-market ideas of Soviet Professor Evsei Liberman (TIME cover...
...this may explain the relative lack of enthusiasm for small-scale activities centered around the House. When Leverett does something, it does it big. If it's athletics, Leverett wins the Straus Trophy; if it's drama, Leverett stages a full-scale opera. Instead of wide participation on an amateurish level, there is serious participation by a dedicated faction and relative indifference on the part of non-participators...
...long and hoary. The only person whose face fits the drama is the lute player, who has a very full, dark, biblical beard. Furthermore, the singers are not consistent in their facial expressions; some of them never show any expression at all, while others come up with some amateurish miming. When the queen hears the fatal prophecy a worried expression comes over her face, more like a wife who has burned the potatoes than a queen who is about to lose her husband and kingdom...