Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a shadowless personality, inept in his love life. Thus, to compensate for his own inadequacies, he exaggerates Dean's qualities almost to the point of inventing a new character; he fears his creation as he must fear "all men who are successful in love...
...transforming his words into images. Director Strick has preserved on his sound track as many of Joyce's words as he could, but most of the time he has used the images as a lecturer uses slides: simply to illustrate what is being said. Often the illustrations are inept. Joyce was half blind, and his Dublin is a city dimly seen but fantastically imagined. Strick's Dublin, however, is the ordinary place that shows up on postcards-even when Bloom sinks into parodic delusions of grandeur, the images in his fantasies remain invincibly normal and unexciting. The images...
...student to make a movie--even an extremely short movie--was so prohibitively difficult, expensive, and lonely a business, that only a few tried, and their results were usually too miniature or inept to gain widespread attention...
...married couples in opera. Destiny, they feel, had a hand in it. Berry, 36, an alumnus of the famed Vienna Boys Choir, studied engineering after World War II, moonlighted as a jazz pianist and singer in a Vienna cabaret with a combo called the Melodie Boys. He was hopelessly inept at engineering, so his professor agreed to pass him only if he promised to give up bridge building for music. He agreed, and after three years of singing what he calls "walk-off" roles, he landed his first major part at the Vienna State Opera...
What he suggests is a method for organizational renewal, but he admits that an organization's policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...