Word: feckless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money...
...young protagonist of Sheed's feverish short novel, the equivalent of Dickens' blacking factory is a backwater English secondary school called Sopworth College. Jimmy Bannister, 15 and feckless, is suddenly uprooted from his American adolescence and packed off to Sopworth. Both menacing and seedy, Sopworth gives him an advanced course in the three Bs: boredom, bullying and befuddlement...
...dropped his favorite-son role in order to back Rockefeller. But neither Shafer's influence nor his choice to nominate Rockefeller could hold the entire delegation in line. Some of the Pennsylvanians had scant respect for their Governor, privately referring to him as "Dudley Do-Right," after the feckless cartoon character who usually ends up doing the wrong thing for the right reason. And Nixon had powerful supporters in the delegation, including George Bloom, chairman of the state public-utility commission, and Congressman James Fulton. When Rockefeller visited the Keystone Staters, District Attorney Robert Duggan of Allegheny County demanded...
...herself with a little party going, a little yachting, and a lot of Luigi Rizzi, 24, handsome Italian nightclub owner with whom she was glimpsed soaking up the sun au naturel. Things livened up one night when a tourist insulted her and friends hurled a few bottles at the feckless foe. Otherwise, life has been quiet for BB and beau. Gunther, meanwhile, tore himself away from the North Sea's nudist beaches long enough to file for divorce, accusing Brigitte of "an abusive conception of marriage and premeditated abandonment of the household." To which Brigitte responded with a peal...
...June. If Evers is a candidate again, he once more has a chance to overcome a splintered white ticket. Or he may avoid the Democratic primary by qualifying himself as an independent and go into a three-man November general election against the Democratic winner and a traditionally feckless Republican. At week's end Evers supporters were planning a drive to register 25,000 more Negro voters, which would give them a total of 98,000 as against 125,000 registered whites...