Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lions were the doormat of the Ivy League season last year with an 0-6-1 record, and lost most of their lettermen from that inept eleven. The only experienced players on the 1964 roster are All-Ivy halfback Steve Robinson and right wing Waldemar Schulz. In the team's first two games of the season Schulz broke the fibula in his right leg and Robinson dislocated a shoulder. (He has continued to play despite this handicap...
...hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns and exchange presents on the war's first Christmas day.* Victor Spinetti, a marvelously adroit actor in a wonderfully adroit cast, contributes the show's stopper as an English sergeant blasting out inept recruits in hilarious British doubletalk...
...tragedy struck again in the two very minor parts. Jody Claflin (who, according to the program, "began her acting career when she played the Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland at the age of seven") bungled completely her brief appearance as the Nurse-Secretary. And Timothy Affleck was just as inept as a Caterer's Man. (The program tells us that he "marched at the head of the town parade in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1949.") As usual, the Theatre Company comes up with good sets and professional lighting for its latest presentation...
Much discussion ranged about the topic of whether poetry should be an art form or a social commentary. Donoghue noted that poets are notoriously inept when tackling politics. He cited T.S. Eliot's politics, which were "grotesque...
...some extent this paid off in Morris Carnovsky's 1963 Lear, but for the most part the American Stratford is still disappointingly inept. Someone named Tom Sawyer is playing Hamlet there this year. The poor fellow may very well know how to get a fence painted, but he certainly has no idea how to sit on one. Left alone on the stage for soliloquies, he is wooden, stiff-legged and ill at ease. His fencing lessons have resulted in a duel scene that might have been fought between Mrs. Warren Harding and the lady in Ohio. Considering the Gertrude...