Word: amateurish
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...others promptly hastened from the premises I hastily began dialing for some report upon the quake. I found I could pick up a number of stations northwest-and east of my location. But I did not pick up any south of me & so radio enabled me, in a very amateurish way, to determine that whatever disturbance had taken place was probably south of Pasadena and (because of the interruption to Los Angeles stations) might have affected Los Angeles to a serious extent. Presently I picked up a station west of me announcing that they were making strenuous effort to ascertain...
...expected a lucid discussion of Technocracy in this week's issue of TIME, but was woefully disappointed. Your article, unlike almost everything else in TIME, was inept, amateurish...
...Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...from beneath the Brown Derby, it did not appear to be taken seriously. It occasioned no enthusiasm among the Democratic diners. The men who write newspaper editorials throughout the land blurbed polite nothings about it next day, or dismissed it out of hand as "another of Smith's amateurish suggestions." European ears pricked up with interest, but no impartial and potent U. S. economist bothered to voice an opinion, except ever-vocal Nicholas Murray Butler who took occasion to repeat that he is for immediate and complete Cancellation. The one tangible new foreign debt idea voiced this year...
Respighi meant his Maria Egiziaca to be mounted simply so as to suggest the old mystery plays. Mary of Egypt (German Charlotte Boerner) sang capably last week but, for the rest, the Philharmonic production was amateurish to a degree that Toscanini would never have tolerated. In his own miraculous fashion Toscanini might even have made the drab, derivative music take on color, sound significant...