Word: inept
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...blame James Jones for his new book [Jan. 13]? He's just been sitting in a little Illinois town putting his thoughts on paper-like many other inept writers. Blame the present sad state of American letters in which publishers print manuscripts of such caliber; moving-picture companies buy them at a cost of millions. It is scant comfort to professional writers like myself-who beat our brains out, trying to peddle manuscripts of more or less reasonable value in a market without values-to know that Some Came Running from Here to Eternity...
...poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale, himself a boxing fan, apologized for "the inept handling and bad timing of the commercial...
...Downs Sir: In the past few weeks this country has accustomed itself to the fact that we are technologically backward. I assume this will be properly investigated by the usual brass-bottom parties. But we are now faced with the fact that we are so inept and so ineffectual in the matter of public relations that we have advertised ourselves as dolts to the entire world...
Silverman blamed "inept" film leaders for their "ostrich viewpoint" about TV, roasted hard-up studio heads for peddling pre-1948 film libraries to television for a "ridiculously low price." The only solution, according to Silverman: post-1948 films must not be sold unless TV pays enough money "to maintain a steady flow of important pictures...
Fresh from its 24 to 5 opening win over a hapless Dartmouth team, the varsity wrestlers will open their home season with an equally inept M.I.T. squad on the I.A.B. mats...