Word: feckless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pizza on Credit is about a pizza barker (Giacomo Furia) who is possessed by his possessions: a wife (Sophia Loren) much too pretty to be practical, and an emerald ring much too expensive to be trusted to the feckless likes of her. When she loses it, he finds out rather more than he wants to know...
Across the Pond. The peacock in its prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
After the balanced sanity and insight of TIME'S survey of American painting [Dec. 24], the majority of prizewinners in the Chicago and Corcoran exhibits [Jan. 21] seem like the feckless choices of a madman. James Brooks's R-1953, which resembles nothing more than an imperfectly stained laboratory slide, cannot be interpreted as anything but a refined experiment in egomania. Lipton's The Cloak, even as a theme, could be more feelingly rendered by any class of fifth-graders. Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79 should be considered as an expression of pure design...
...comment on Britain's attack on Suez, Socialist Vicky was, as usual, Fleet Street's sharpest mocksman -because he saw the British as they do not like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time...
Freudian Horrors. A study in Victorian vapors and villainy, Barretts struck fire from the opening scene, when Cornell's feckless brothers and sisters trooped in singly to wish her well. Stretched wanly on a chaise longue, Actress Cornell, 58, seemed too old for her role, but with her first big speech captured a youthful intensity that was an optical as well as an acting triumph. Henry Daniell gave one of his best performances, as a father tyrannical enough to cow a platoon of rebellious children, and in one searing moment-when he harshly kissed his fluttery niece, Bella-suggested...