Word: inept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees," was one of the slogans in the Mexico City student revolt only last summer. (Womack is not sure Zapata ever said it, and the students attributed the remark to Father Hidalgo, the fervent but inept tocsin-sounder of the Revolution of 1810.) To the old regime in Zapata's time, he was a bandit of a new Attila; to the ruling class today, he remains the ominous symbol for the dark forces within the dispossessed which could still be stirred up at an moment...
...soliloquies are delivered as if Hamlet were in desperate need of geriatric drugs. Rabb is too monotonous for eloquence and too weary for anger. The rest of the cast is almost uniformly inept. Horatio is played like a lost Boy Scout, Gertrude as a matronly simp and Ophelia as an epileptic. Only Richard Easton's Claudius has the dignity of a solid stage presence, and Philip Minor's First Gravedigger has wry antic authority. In view of his acting and directing, perhaps Ellis Rabb should really be listed as the First Gravedigger...
Unfortunate Delay. Whatever the Soviet motives, the West Germans' inept handling of the election plans probably tempted the Russians to fasten on to that particular issue. Despite vague Communist warnings, the West Germans decided last December to go ahead with presidential selection in Berlin. But then the West Germans unfortunately failed to send out the formal summonses that would have made the decision final. The delay apparently led the Communists to believe that the West Germans could still be badgered out of holding the elections in Berlin...
Allan Felix's problem in the play is that no one seems to love him. His wife has just left him. He is too inept to cook even a frozen TV dinner, though he does relish licking it. His best friend (Anthony Roberts) and his best friend's wife (Diane Keaton) round up several miniskirted cuties for him, but nothing happens. Even in his fantasies, girls reject...
...other students wish to attend with me. I suspect they had two reasons for staying away: (a) the speakers were sometimes appallingly inept; (b) the debates were published verbatim afterwards for anyone, in or out of the university, to read...