Word: fecklessness
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...distinguished. There is no question that growth in Government spending must be curtailed. The question is whether this constitutional amendment would accomplish that purpose. The amendment is like proposing to stop an orgy by rolling a grenade under the door: frag the bureaucratic waterbed. It is an extreme solution, feckless and fanatic. It may be satisfying at the moment, but it involves a messy aftermath...
...galleries with his stoned pictorial ramblings, large-scale doodles interspersed with logorrheic messages in script. What they may mean (assuming that these spurts of buckeye American surrealism are meant to have any narrative meaning) is utterly opaque, but in the Whitney he is at it again, in his klutzy, feckless way, in a room dominated by scrawled names and a huge black cutout of a man who repeatedly swings a hammer. Whatever its meaning, this piece is visually more interesting than the "environment" that greets one on the fourth floor of the Whitney, Robert Wilson's chic...
Reagan has not talked about other phases of foreign policy in great detail during the campaign, but his general ideas come through plainly enough. He thinks little of the way Jimmy Carter's human rights policy has been applied. He feels that approach has been feckless and hypocritical because it undermined loyal allies like the late Shah of Iran. Preventing "additional Cubas" in Central America must take priority over moral preachments...
Indeed, when Lynda and Melvin get back together, it is her terpsichorean gift that briefly rescues him from having to succeed in his ingenuous but feckless quest for the "Milkman of the Month" prize at the dairy where he takes a job. She picks up money to pay the bills by tap dancing off with the top prize on Easy Street, a parody of one of those game shows that are themselves a parody of the American dream. But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this...
...forebodings are fiscal. Says former Aerospace Worker Bill Kerbaugh, 50, who now operates a survivalist nutrition center in Sonora, Calif.: "I believe there is going to be a total collapse of the economy in this country, and it will provoke a worldwide depression." According to the survivalist scenario, those feckless optimists who are trapped in the nation's blighted cities will perish. The sage few who have gone back to the land-or at least to wholesome small towns-and have laid in provisions, firewood, kerosene lanterns, Q-Tips and radio batteries will survive...