Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Courses of Instruction is scheduled for, say, Thursday at 1. We try our best--running from room to room, spending 10 minutes in each class, picking up as many syllabi and catching as may professorial utterances as an hour allows. In the end we're tired, but just as clueless as ever...
...undergraduate program is riddled with problems--inadequate advising, inaccessible professors, clueless teaching fellows, to name a few. But most students of the College would agree that Public Enemy Number One is the big, bad ineffectual Core Curriculum which, ironically, has been praised as one of Bok's major accomplishments...
Shannon Glynn's Eisenstein was hilarious, but his upper register was too pinched. As the police chief Frank, Jim Jordon was convincingly clueless, and had the appealing likeness of a Don Martin character in MAD Magazine...
...part, the East has a different philosophy in teaching horseback riding than the West does. I was taught how to ride in Wyoming by some cowboys who put me on a wild horse with no helmet and sent me off galloping into the sunset with a bunch of equally clueless beginners. Fortunately I survived this 'sink-or-swim' way of teaching without breaking my neck (only a few bruises), but obviously this is not how Boston Equestrian teaches riding or they'd in court every day facing massive lawsuits...
Early in the novel, for example, the story chronicles the misfortunes that result when Timothy Bright, a clueless member of a historically rich and influential family is persuaded by a violent-tempered drug smuggler that if he doesn't cooperate in an illegal transaction he will be turned into "piggy-chops." Obsessed with this image of flayed pig, Timothy steals money from his invalid aunt and invades his uncle-in-law's home. Soon, as a result of the desire of an unsympathetic cousin to be rid of him, Timothy finds himself speeding down the highway on a motorcycle under...