Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta Constitution Editor Eu gene Patterson, the President's decision was in keeping with his character. The so-called change was all in the eye of the critical beholder. Because L.B.J. is inept at communicating, said Patterson, "many Americans did not believe that his silences masked rational pursuit of results, or that his conciliatory blurring of issues represented a healthier ap proach than sharpening them. So his enemies have brought down their man. They are going to miss...
...says, holographic deblurring should become invaluable in salvaging out-of-focus pictures from deep space probes, balloon flights, aerial reconnaissance and other photographic missions that are difficult to repeat. Eventually, Stroke's process may be used to bring a professional sharpness to the pictures of even the most inept amateur photographer...
...storied acumen as a politician, Lyndon Johnson seems incongruously inept at handling his own candidacy for reelection. Last week he waited until 17 minutes before the filing deadline to notify Massachusetts State Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman that neither he nor any stand-in would oppose Eugene McCarthy in the April 30 presidential primary. Not only is the Massachusetts party organization confused and bitter as a result, but under the terms of a new state law, Senator McCarthy is also guaranteed all Massachusetts' 72 delegate votes on the first ballot at the convention...
...McCarthy's vote not only reflected mounting feeling against the war in Vietnam, but was a genuine tribute to the Minnesota Senator's singularly graceful, straightforward campaign style. McCarthy's showing was also partly the result of the clumsy write-in run by the President's backers--an inept performance typical of the confused, out-of-touch condition of the Democratic national leadership...
Trying for Brecht but never being echt, the film is only a procession of skits, songs, dialogues and newsreels. The lack of story or order need not have been fatal; but the movie is inept even as psychodrama-or as pacifist propaganda. A Maoist girl (Glenda Jackson) quotes endlessly from the Chairman: "A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage...