Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...
...Evil, Inept. Many major institutions, such as Harvard and Chicago, assume that the prestige of their faculties is sufficient to get a normal share of federal research grants. Academic lobbyists, sniffs Charles Daly, Chicago's vice president for public affairs, "are like all lobbyists, appallingly bad-not bad in the sense of being evil, just inept." Inept or not, many a smaller college has apparently decided that the Washington consultant may be the only way to attract the Government's attention when the money is being passed around...
While Reagan enjoyed some good luck, notably Christopher's unexpectedly inept campaign, his success was more a case of beginner's skill. Reagan was co-chairman of Barry Goldwater's campaign in California and one of Goldwater's most effective spokesmen in 1964. This year he heeded the advice of the political-management firm of Spencer-Roberts to bring his image closer to center. Without abandoning any conservative fundamentals-his platform embraces "fiscal responsibility" and rejects open-housing legislation -Reagan conveyed the impression of a responsible, vigorous crusader with all of the ardor and none...
...Inept King. Grade school children in parts of New York's Westchester County play individual games against a computer. In one, called the "Sumerian game," a player-king is asked how he wants to use the natural resources of the ancient kingdom called Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class...
...tennis team swept all nine matches with M.I.T.'s inept engineers yesterday for its second win of the season...