Word: ineptly
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...depths of central Ohio the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players are back for their eleventh season on Cape Cod, and weekenders in the general vicinity of the Highfield Theatre, Falmouth, Mass., would be well advised to check them out. As usual their make-up is inept, their chorus movement imprecise, and their fourth encores gratuitous. And, as usual, nobody cares. For under the guiding hand of Prof. W. Hayden Boyers the Oberlin group epitomizes all that which is fresh and lively in college theatre...
...last and out of doors, he is a dear, incompetent bumbler, forever picking a spot in a high wind for a game of cards (the solution: a magnetized playing board and card deck for $10). He is equally inept at the barbecue, getting mixed up about the orders for broiled steaks-for which he needs a $4 branding iron to remind him which should be rare, medium and well done. Making the martinis is also a struggle: to solve the how-much-vermouth problem there are Martini Stones ($3), to be soaked in vermouth, then dropped into each glass...
...folowed by a nondescript procession of lefties, all of them as earnest and inept as the starter. Together they were charged with 14 runs, 12 hits, and six walks. Egloff, the beginner in the series, was also the loser...
...description of Martin Luther King as an "inspirational but sometimes inept leader was extremely unfortunate. As one who has represented Dr. King in the courts of Alabama and Georgia and who has had many opportunities to watch him directing the affairs of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, I think that the term inept neither fair nor accurate. It is unfair because it attempts to equate the leader of a great social revolution with a high-powered corporate executive. It is inaccurate because, with limited financial and human resources at his disposal, he succeeds in overcoming enormous odds...
...angry, 2,500-word memo to his colleagues in the armed forces. General Enrique Rauch, who took over last month as Interior Minister, attacked the whole shaky structure of Argentina's government, from the ministries on down. In Rauch's view, the handling of economic policy was inept, numerous shysters from the Frondizi regime still infested top ranks of government, public opinion was misinformed, and scores of "economic criminals" were conspiring to bilk Argentina of its patrimony. To clean up the country, Rauch proposed a firmer military control-in other words, more military officers in the Cabinet...