Word: amateurish
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...Simeons shows that the life of a leper is not always as hellish as Govind had supposed. Simeons is a London-born, Heidelberg-trained doctor who spent about 20 years in India. Now a consultant at Rome's International Hospital, he has written a novel that makes amateurish fiction but has the fascination of its grisly material. If the book is read simply as a knowing, colorful report on the lepers' way of life, its inadequacies as a novel can be comfortably ignored...
...count of four, Rocky got up and fought back. In the third round Walcott gave up trying for a quick knockout, reverted to his normal counterpunching, backpedaling, hit & run tactics. Frequently looking amateurish against Walcott's artful dodging and skillful clinching, Marciano kept moving in, shaking off one punch after another, occasionally jolting Joe with a hard one to the belly. By the end of Round Ten, Marciano had pulled up nearly even in the official scoring. But Walcott, hitting fast and hard, took both 11 and 12, leaving Marciano badly cut and bruised around the eyes...
...advance all these theories because both Adlai Stevenson and Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois look very suspiciously like rush jobs. (Busch's appeared just before the Democratic Convention and Martin's soon after). Basically, they are overblown news stories, combining amateurish attempts at character analysis with homey anecdotes about the Governor frolicking with his kids on the front lawn. Neither book is well written because, I suppose, quotations, homily, and hum-drum are incompatible with polished prose. At best, they are slick...
...Hardy's Steps. Exposition rejects more books than it prints, especially shuns the work of bigots and cranks, and avoids promising too much. But its advertising is nonetheless plainly designed to arouse ambition in amateurish writing breasts...
Deal liberals, and Hannegan's heir presumptive. But he soon lost out to McGrath and retired from politics to become executive director of Theatre Owners of America (at a reported $60,000 a year). As Kefauver's manager, Sullivan will try to give the Tennessean's amateurish campaign what it sorely lacks: professional savvy and big-city organization on a national scale...