Word: inaptness
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Despite its validity, this analysis of SDI is unusually one-sided. Mandelbaum and Talbott ignore all arguments in favor of Star Wars. A defense system is conceivable, for instance, that would not constitute an impregnable "Astrodome"--to use the authors' inapt analogy--but might be capable of destroying a limited number of missiles launched accidentally by the Soviets or irresponsibly by a third power...
...participated in the Harvard strike of 1969 will have left the University. And so ephemeral are the politics of Harvard's undergraduate student body--and so great the self-willed forgetfulness of the larger institution--that the metaphor of the last veteran, outlandish as it seems, is not totally inapt. When we leave, the bonds and rifts which the strike set up between us will vanish, and the last few remnants of a collective mind which at odd moments during that battle seemed fused into one inchoate but unanimous rage will be atomized. For most, the strike will become something...
With these words, a Harvard thesis-writer named Henry Kissinger introduced Clemens Metternich, Austria's greatest foreign minister. Metternich was a man whom Kissinger emulated, whose diplomatic life he has sought to relive. And the comparison of the two is far from inapt...
...were adequate to cope with this problem. The real issue is whether the self-styled judges who took the peremptory action of refusal have promulgated, accepted, and administered some novel procedure during a single tenure whereby they achieve the sole discretionary power of rejection without review. It is neither inapt nor impertinent to suggest that, if the issue is answered in the affirmative, the political system under which the Review functions has profound similarities with that system the editors propose is the altar on which the eligible in question burns holy incense. The Review achieves in the field...
...witty CRIMSON editorial note would have us confuse radio debating with a telegraphic golf match. The identification is not at all inapt. The one meeting is about as artificial and provides about as effective a clash as the other. Both suffer from a lack of common grounds. In debating it is the prerogative of the affirmative to set the issues, and the duty of the negative to follow them. The memorized speech can follow nothing but its predestined path, no matter how little it may bear on the points in dispute...