Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORE STATELY MANSIONS. Eugene O'Neill wanted the uncoordinated, lengthy manuscript of this play destroyed. Somehow a copy survived, and has been subjected to the surgery of José Quintero, who manages to make the great U.S. dramatist appear as inept as a summer-stock apprentice. As a husband, wife, and mother fencing for one another's love, Arthur Hill, Colleen Dewhurst and Ingrid Bergman all appear lost in a disenchanted forest...
...appetizing hors d'oeuvre of an actress can sometimes keep playgoers nibbling on toothpick drama. Broadway's latest dramatic toothpicks. Daphne in Cottage D and There's a Girl in My Soup, are inane, inept, tacky, trivial, and implausible, but Sandy Dennis and Barbara Ferris may yet prove potent teasers of the public palate...
...Army base live a proud major (Marlon Brando) and his vain wife (Elizabeth Taylor). An inept husband and worse horseman, Brando is continually left at the post while Taylor goes riding with her lover (Brian Keith). Keith's wife (Julie Harris) is a housebound psychotic who he insists is normal until Taylor throws him one of the more memorable lines of her or anyone else's film career: "She cut off her nipples with a pair of garden shears-you call that normal? Garden shears...
There is some justice in the teachers' claim to power. Those now in charge of the schools, particularly in the big cities, have failed miserably-and teachers cannot be blamed for overcrowded classes, inept texts, pre-Sputnik curriculums. Even the injection of billions of dollars in federal funds, designed specifically to spur innovation, has largely bypassed the classroom teacher. Of some 700 federal grants awarded last year in Michigan, teachers were not consulted in 80% of the cases...
...troubles of the pound led him to change panaceas in mid-crisis. The switch to classic austerity was supposed to give Britain time to rid itself of such long entrenched weaknesses as industrial inefficiency, featherbedding unions, drowsy management and overstaffed business. Instead, complain businessmen, government tinkering has proved so inept as to create new economic distortions. When Royal Dutch/Shell decided to build a new refinery at Teeside in Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director, F. S. McFadzean, "the Selective Employment...