Word: botches
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Dead playwrights can expect to have their work manhandled by succeeding generations, but no thing that ever lived deserves the thrashing Shakespeare is receiving from the Leverett House Drama Society. Their production of Twelfth Night is, alas, a graceless botch...
...only hope that everything in my career I manage to "botch" as much as you reported I did at the recent Venice Film Festival [Sept. 16]. For thanks to the festival, Italy's famed film director
...Every Botch Has a Silver Lining
...Although no record was kept of Oswald's interrogation during the 45 ½ hours he was in custody, the commission leaned heavily on the word of Dallas police-who had made a horrible botch of the case in almost every respect-that Oswald "repeatedly and blatantly lied...
Seymour Melman, industrial engineering professor at Columbia, has proposed that teachers give A's to all their students to avoid such choices. His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust." Some students concede that they will choose easy courses to keep their grades high. An advertisement in the University of Michigan Daily urged coeds to muff their exams so the men could rank higher...