Word: fecklessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more or less conservative country, the more or less conservative candidate--Bob Dole--should have been a shoo-in for the presidency, especially against a feckless charmer whose Administration threw off scandal like spores. But until the end, Dole was barely competitive, and in the end he lost. There are three schools of thought on why. The first...
...process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal by trying their luck in court...
...wouldn't be surprising if men stayed away from The First Wives Club in stadium-size droves. The three screen-grabbing actresses don't just do well by beating their feckless husbands at the money game; they do good by opening a women's crisis center with the proceeds. They do not shrink from campiness, either, as they vamp through a girl-group rendition of You Don't Own Me in the final scene...
Weld strongly criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), deriding the organization as "Dr. [David] Kessler's Neighborhood" and "Feckless, Deficient and Arcane...
America is divided between those who hated the '60s and those who loved them. I hated the '60s, while welcoming some of the changes they brought churning along with them. In any case, it is not entirely feckless nostalgia to say that the last age of real American parental responsibility was the age of Eisenhower, after which (as the boomers thought) adults became disreputable and untrustworthy (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon). The deconstruction of American public authority in the Vietnam years left boundaries eroded and crumbling. Individual roles melted into one another. Older distinctive identities and purposes grew confused...