Word: inept
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...dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated play...
...Right to Dream. What was generally hailed by reviewers as the worst play put on in Manhattan this season sidled in last week. It did not even have the merit of being so atrociously bad that it was funny. It was just dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated. That is all. Author I. K. Davis starts out with an intrinsically interesting premise- a protest against the workaday world that would force a man to the accumulation of money, thus smothering the spark of divine genius. In his play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker...
...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
...which appear and disappear from time to time. In quoting from the letters of college freshmen to prove that first year university work would have been much easier with a knowledge of how to use books and libraries, these petitioners are almost ridiculous. The collegiate mind must be singularly inept which fails to solve the intricacies of the average card index system after a few moments of thought. And the fact that several cities report that their libraries are crowded with school children to the exclusion of adults would seem to indicate a reasonably wide familiarity with books and their...
...intelligence. . . . The interview is the fruit of a delirious imagination. There never was a secret agreement between Clemenceau and Wilson. . . . To qualify as a secret agreement a project which was for six weeks in the hands of the British delegation as well as the American delegation . . . is either an inept or malevolent procedure?perhaps both...