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Word: ineptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heimert recalls English Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, one of his mentors, advising him to always appear to be an inept administrator...

Author: By Alan Heimert, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City on a Hill: Heimert Keeps the Harvard Flame Ablaze | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Other Half Loves is almost as complicated as the staging. Bob Phillips (John Duda '99), a bored young businessman, has an adulterous affair with Fiona Foster (Sarah Matthay '99), the promiscuous wife of Bob's manager. Their unfortunate decision to use fictitious after-work jaunts with Bob's socially inept coworker William Detweiller (Kirk Hanson '99) and his wife Mary (Erica Rabbit '00) as a means of covering up their late-night meetings leads to a sequence of embarrassing dinner parties, misread signals, and confused assumptions on the part of almost everyone involved. Place all of this...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ayckbourn Agitates Aristotle at the Agassiz--Applause, Admiration and Accolades are Appended | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taking His Full Measure | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying for Auschwitz | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Other critics are not so judicious. Alfred B. Fantini, who served on the committee for 16 years before losing a re-election bid in 1997, says the current committee is "inept...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The School Committee Under Fire | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

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