Word: ineptly
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...student to make a movie--even an extremely short movie--was so prohibitively difficult, expensive, and lonely a business, that only a few tried, and their results were usually too miniature or inept to gain widespread attention...
...married couples in opera. Destiny, they feel, had a hand in it. Berry, 36, an alumnus of the famed Vienna Boys Choir, studied engineering after World War II, moonlighted as a jazz pianist and singer in a Vienna cabaret with a combo called the Melodie Boys. He was hopelessly inept at engineering, so his professor agreed to pass him only if he promised to give up bridge building for music. He agreed, and after three years of singing what he calls "walk-off" roles, he landed his first major part at the Vienna State Opera...
What he suggests is a method for organizational renewal, but he admits that an organization's policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...
...inept administrator, a corrosive buttinsky on the set, a compulsive chiseler and a helpless planner, Levy was ripe for disaster when he announced his grand oeuvre in 1961: a version of Marco Polo budgeted at $4,000,000, mostly imaginary. He rented 200 elephants in Nepal, allowing 71 to die of malnutrition, ruined the careers of two Yugoslav bureaucrats when he conned state funds out of them, welshed on everything from actors' salaries to florists' bills. Finally finished, the film was uneditable...
...case, middle-level classes are the Gen Ed section man's dream. He is freed from the dreary search for inept metaphors and badly constructed sentences that absorbs most of a teaching fellow's energy in what one of them called "the basic idiot's course." Instead he is able to teach his own field to students who have declared an interest in it. The old "why-bother-with-the-reading-it's-only-Gen-Ed" syndrome seems to have vanished in middle level sections...