Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of these Crimson growing pains, M.I.T. should test but not tax Harvard in today's outing. The traditionally inept Engineers lost to mediocre Hofstra earlier in the season. Boasting a stingy secondary but a papier-mache offense, M.I.T. managed only three goals off the Dutchmen while allowing five...
...recent City Council meetings, certain members have called all of Rudolph's programs "ridiculous" and the man himself "inept, stubborn, arrogant--the leader of organized persecution against the poorer residents of Cambridge and Harvard students on scholarship." These members have asked for Rudolph's dismissal, hoping to abolish the post of City Traffic Director altogether...
Chandler deliberately avoids mentioning his opponent's name, except to call him "that inept, incompetent, nice, pretty young fellow who wants to be Governor." By actual count, Chandler has so far ignored or declined 80 challenges to debate Breathitt on television. As for Breathitt, he has some good references. An ancestor was a pre-Civil War Kentucky Governor, for whom Breathitt County was named; his grandfather was a state attorney general, and an uncle was lieutenant governor. Schooled by his family in politics, Breathitt took a law degree at the University of Kentucky, served three terms in the legislature...
...this sort of book, there is no total to arrive at. Nothing makes any waking sense. But it makes a powerful, deeply disturbing dream sense. Nothing in the book seems to have been thrown in arbitrarily, merely to confuse, as is the case when inept authors work at illusion. Pynchon appears to be indulging in the fine. pre-Freudian luxury of dreams dreamt for the dreaming. The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. What does it mean? Who. finally, is V.? Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one. Who, indeed...
Some Support. Did this dreadful stuff touch off a sound of laughter like hail on a tin roof? No. Jack Benny almost never does. His material is gauged for longevity rather than flash. His patent for permanence is simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps...