Word: amateurish
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...remainder of Tuesday night's lengthy program consisted of "L'Apres Midi d'un Faune" and "Concerto Barocco." Despite amateurish scenery and the unexplained and crippling absence of Maitre de Ballet Frederic Franklin from the lead, the music, in the hands of the group's competent orchestra, provided enough enjoyment to make the Debussy ballet almost worthwhile...
...Vague, Amateurish Lysenko...
...friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko's experiments are reported without exact data and his interpretations are deduced from vague, amateurish concepts. . . . Genetics is a progressive science, welcoming expert criticism, but Lysenko's is disappointing. CURT STERN Professor of Experimental Zoology University of Rochester Rochester...
Legs & Heartbeats. Despite that amateurish performance, long wartime absence from competition hadn't hurt MacMitchell's legs. Nor had war increased his slow heartbeat; MacMitchell's still pumped at a tardy 43 beats a minute. What he needed most was crack competition. Ready to oblige: Wisconsin's Walter Mehl, conqueror of Glenn Cunningham, who was out of the Navy and in training; ex-Dartmouth speedster Don Burnham...
...easy byplay between Kelly's rock-solid acting, which carries the show and is as sure as anything in pictures, and Sinatra's gently amateurish pseudo-goofiness, with its engaging echoes of Stan Laurel...