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...MORE MUNDANE level, a shift in the Administration's batting order also sapped Union strength. R. Victor Jones, former lead-off man as dean of the GSAS, had helped fuel the initial burst of Union activity last year after an inept performance before a crowd of graduate students...
...preparers at a total (and tax deductible) cost of about $600 million. The IRS stresses that larger firms like H & R Block of Kansas City, Mo., are generally trustworthy. But it suspects that vast amounts of revenue are being lost because of the activities of cheating or inept smaller tax preparers...
Last year MIT, through a combination of inept and biased officiating and Crimson complacency, were lucky enough to grab first, although Harvard had then as now a squad far superior to any in the Boston area. This year, however, coach Don Gambril, not particularly wanting another embarassing loss, sent a representative team capable of winning every event. His swimmers responded by taking all but one race, just enough to beat the Engineers...
...rate, young Whalen is an ex-junky, an inept lecher, and a petulant, sadistic jerk. Even such a figure might conceivably be observed to good effect, but Kosinski perceives nothing of unusual interest in the homunculus he has created. A succession of brief, turgid scenes demonstrates Whalen's emptiness, a quality that is never in doubt; nothing in the book offers any insight into the author's reasons for pursuing such an unrewarding project. One of Kosinski's few gestures toward literary excellence amounts to a stylistic tic: his repeated use of Grim Bits from Mother Nature...
Rossetti represents a second, later trend in pre-Raphaelite painting--a withdrawal from the natural world into the realms of the imagination. An inept draftsman, Rossetti was baffled by perspective and uninterested in the details of landscape. He was a poet and perhaps did not have the patience to learn much of the technique of painting. His paint surfaces lack in technical virtuosity, but this is over-shadowed by the haunting mysticism of his women. They are undoubtedly the best known of all pre-Raphaelite works...