Word: inept
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Money, the saga of an inept robbing hood, was hip, paranoid and eclectic, and it had the fuzzy continuity of a fever dream-rather like the early Marx Brothers movies, or the last films of W.C. Fields. It also had a fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally...
...inept handling of these proposals is extraordinary: few of them even remotely threaten the existing structure. The failure to implement these stop-gap proposals or essentially preliminary measures is chiefly a reflection of power interests within the University or of general Faculty unconcern regarding change. Were any attempt made to develop a coherent philosophy of education for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, much less to arrange some "grand commission," students, faculty and administrators would have to face at least the following issues: to what degree a university education actually serves the individual; the value of a university education in modern society...
...last week that David Frost's syndicated talk show would die at the end of June, and ABC has warned Dick Cavett that unless his ratings are improved in the next three months, the show would be dropped in the fall. Cavett counters that ABC has been "lazy, inept and incompetent" in promoting his show. What would take his place? ABC talks grandly of a "major program development effort" to find something new. So long as its ratings keep up, CBS will be happy with its own "development effort"-dusting off cans of old movies...
Single Shot. Inept as the 3rd Division appeared to be, it was a model of discipline by comparison with some of the Regional and Popular Force irregulars in the area, who were little better than gun-happy mobs. South of Quang Tri city, one such mob fired away with giddy abandon for two hours at Communists holding a bridge on Highway 1. When the Communists finally broke and ran, reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, "the South Vietnamese ran off after them, hooting in jubilation-until the Communists turned to fire a few sobering rounds at their pursuers. The troops stopped...
...body to refuse to serve, and I call on the Harvard Administration to step in and take jurisdiction over an issue that has dragged on for two pathetic years and seems, in the GSD's hands, to become more ludicrous and unjust with each new step that inept body of administrators takes. Chester W. Hartman University of California at Berkeley