Word: inept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heimert recalls English Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, one of his mentors, advising him to always appear to be an inept administrator...
...Other Half Loves is almost as complicated as the staging. Bob Phillips (John Duda '99), a bored young businessman, has an adulterous affair with Fiona Foster (Sarah Matthay '99), the promiscuous wife of Bob's manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place all of this...
...friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...
Other critics are not so judicious. Alfred B. Fantini, who served on the committee for 16 years before losing a re-election bid in 1997, says the current committee is "inept...