Word: ineptly
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...people; first of all, that there ought to be a change. He hammered at the "mess in Washington," at corruption, inefficiency, high taxes and high prices. The U.S., he said, must have a government the nation and the world can respect. Another aspect of the mess was the inept handling of Communism, both at home and abroad. At home, charged Eisenhower, the Administration had coddled Communists, and sneered with phrases like "red herring" at those who warned against the danger. Abroad, the Administration's foreign policy had managed to take a magnificent victory and run it into the ground...
...fault, as nearly as I can place it, was in the way the script made the characters think and plan. Any thinking or planning in a good English farce should be hasty and bumbling, and yet so surprisingly successful in its inept way that it cannot help but be funny. Here the characters schemed in the adolescent manner that you would expect in a Henry Aldrich radio program. In fact, the plot as it finally thrashed itself out was more on the American comedy plan than the English, with some completely believable people doing completely believable and often unfunny things...
Teacher Roderick Cox of Washington's Sidwell Friends School, who has often been "distressed" by the inept questioning he has heard on adult forum shows, says flatly that "the thinking student asks far better questions than the average adult." In fact, he has found that teen-age information sometimes outpaces his own. Cox walked into class one morning last week to discover that his students had drawn up complete lists of possible Cabinet members for both Stevenson and Eisenhower. What disturbed him most, says Cox, was that "some of the names they had listed, I didn't even...
Though all the play's ideas are familiar and many of its situations are inept, it has its interludes of fun; had Shaw but written it 60 years earlier, it would undoubtedly have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
Reds & Pinks. Percy Hardcaster is a beefy son of the slums whose tie with the Communist Party is simple and direct: he hates the upper classes. Sent to Spain to do propaganda work, he gets clapped into jail, loses a leg in an inept attempt to escape. Released and returned to England, he plays the Red hero and is lionized by the jackals of the party line. Most of them are arty fellow travelers from the Bloomsbury set, and their spirits are as dank as their cellar studio apartments. Black sheep sons of wealthy parents, ersatz painters and poets, they...