Word: inept
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Despite these debilities, the play is retrieved and made fit for viewing by several considerations. One is that it takes a lot of inept handling to obscure the dramatic facts of Joan's career. Another is Maxwell Anderson's amazing gift of producing a flow of facile, taut dialogue. Finally, the cast is enthusiastic and, in the main, knows its craft. Madge Evans, despite a vigorous between-acts clawing from the Bergman acolytes, is fluent, intent on what she's doing, and very good to look at: and Richard Crouch is quick, practical, and harried as a stage manager...
Chicago had to make up for ten years of inept and corrupt public-school administration. For months, a reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold...
...Falange is not all-powerful. The Army and the Church hate and fear it. The three are held in uneasy alliance by the consummate skill of that underestimated little dictator, Francisco Franco, and by the inept and purely verbal opposition of the democracies...
...after the new Government's inevitable flop. Cried pro-Communist Socialist Pietro Nenni: "What goes out the window will come in the door." That was a clear cue for the U.S. not to let the new Government flop; it might be difficult to protect Ministers who are as inept as they are well-meaning...
...tradition, the undergraduates, aided and abetted by the CRIMSON, beat the inevitable tattoo on the hapless skull of the H.A.A. The subject? Ticket distribution, of course. From the first game, when it was claimed that non-University personnel sat in cheering section seats, to the last, when inept distribution of tickets was alleged, the Athletic Association was on the receiving end of a steady drum-fire of adverse publicity...