Word: amateurish
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...novelist, Cardinal Spellman is bland and amateurish. But if his book will not advance American literature, it will do positive good in another quarter: every nickel of the proceeds (including about $40,000 from the Literary Guild) goes to the New York Foundling Hospital...
...Rough" is the term usually applied to productions like Pl Eta's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
Even the underworld, or at least its old guard, gets sympathetic treatment from The Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well...
Fate's Guinea Pig. In his short life he produced 14 books-poems, novels, short stories-some masterly, some amateurish. He pursued an erratic career as reporter and war correspondent. He made punishing journeys to wars and insurrections, and he acquired a Bohemian notoriety that reads like a composite of Poe and De Quincey. A rebellious spirit, he took a peculiarly joyless pleasure in scandalizing the age. A groundless charge of drug addiction provoked a characteristic response: he concocted a piece on the opium habit...
Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox) adapts the authentic story-almost too good to be true-of the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...