Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ostensibly, Jason is one of those charming, feckless boy-men whom women love and yearn to mother and men find alternately fascinating and exasperating. But from the moment Jason is displayed as a terrified small boy, cringing before the hectoring of his retired-general father, the most cursory student of Medic can predict what is coming-the compulsive lying to cover up innocent misdemeanors, the bad time at public school, where a senior prefect spoils him and thereby earns him the hostility of the whole school and a brutal beating, the intense Jewish girl whose love drives him to deeds...
...historically had Plymouth Rock landed on the Pilgrims. For Mr. Wonderful much less suggests Nightclub Artist Sammy Davis Jr. finally landing on Broadway than Broadway landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame as out of a cage-and of having to elude a posse until it is so winded it lets him be the whole show...
...have more to do, and do it sometimes with less skill. As King Edward, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is properly cardiac and feckless, but Sir John Gielgud dilutes his Clarence with so much milk of human kindness that the observer cannot really credit him with the murder he bemoans, and so the point of his big scene is lost. Sir Ralph Richardson, too, is scarcely the strong figure that the "deep-revolving, witty Buckingham" should...
...same world. He was of a very different physique, tall-medium in height, with blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...
...Calvin and John Knox, demanded that the Ecclesiastical College at Geneva deny baptism to children whose parents were not in good church standing. They failed, but ever since, the subject has risen periodically to plague Protestant parishes. Can any child be turned away from the font, however lapsed or feckless his parents or godparents may be? Yes, indeed, say some hard-boiled clergymen...