Word: fecklessness
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Despite lavish if clandestine American support of pro-government forces, the Communists today control roughly four-fifths of Laos' territory and one-third of its 2,800,000 people (see map). This has been achieved not by the feckless Pathet Lao but by the North Vietnamese, who have at least 65,000 soldiers in Laos-more proportionally than they have in South Viet Nam. Furnished with tanks, long-range Soviet-made 130-mm, guns and what Western observers describe as "some of the finest and most highly motivated infantry in the world" (see story, following page), Hanoi...
...Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
...what it is that often makes Auchincloss worth bothering about. The story, written at the level of what used to be called women's magazine fiction, concerns the downfall and upfall of Tony Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings of the hero's conscience, which, after much interior melodrama, sees him through...
...discover any traces. "Are you married?" he asks, trying to make chitchat. "Mr. Navazio assumes I am married," replies the businesslike Elaine. "I assume what I want." Unfortunately for purposes of the tryst, the only thing Barney can assume is a defensive, feckless...
Marquand was somewhat like his heroes. Born in very comfortable circumstances, he liked to point out that his family had been gentry in the old town of Newburyport, Mass., since 1732. But his feckless father lost all his money by the time John was 14. He was forced to attend public high school, endure four years of Harvard without benefit of a club, and start his climb in the social world as a writer of magazine serials. By middle age, he was a smart, stingy, sardonic man who had perfected a mellifluous prose style and the art of making money...