Word: inept
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...milliner (Susan Strasberg) has been summoned by the Duchess in order to impersonate the Prince's dead beloved; in acting both herself and the dead ballerina, the milliner successfully wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...
...both the Tufts and the Williams scrimmages, the Crimson was particularly inept against its opponents' aerial attacks, a weakness Yovicsin fears will prove fatal against the Ithacans. Cornell has a good passing attack, as it showed against Colgate last Saturday...
...Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks and loan companies to cover them...
...There was never much chance that Kansas City Manager Lou Boudreau could teach his inept Athletics to win more ball games than they lost. And there was never much doubt that he would be fired if he failed. As the A's kept losing, the affable ex-shortstop lost his job last week after 15 years of major-league managing. Boudreau's successor: Harry Craft, one of Kansas City's coaches...
Hard-boiled Buick Boss Ed Ragsdale was also burned. Said he, in a statement unprecedented in tortured viewer-sponsor relations: "As a fight fan myself, I was incensed at the inept handling and bad timing. As general manager of Buick, I feel that a public apology is in order, and I assure those interested that this will not happen again on any public-service telecast sponsored by Buick...