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...Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, 27, a seventh-round technical knockout over aging (35) Lee Savold; in Philadelphia. Marciano, a leading contender for the world title, was so inept-once, missing with a wild right, he threw himself flat on his face-that Champion Joe Walcott, who had been dickering with Marciano, promptly agreed to a return fight in June with ex-Champion Ezzard Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Diana Herbert, as Hull's daughter, is easily the most inept member of the cast. She telegraphs all her lines by constantly fidgeting; when she speaks, she throws her arms into impossible gestures. Charles Nolte, of Billy Budd fame, plays Miss Herbert's husband very weakly. Endowed with an unbelievably cherubic face, Nolte is being type-cast as an unbelievable good character. This may be all right for the symbol of a good man. But no real man, especially a rough-hewn mountaineer, is that good...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: A Little Evil | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...this writer's imagination, but the first movement seemed symptomatic of what was to come. Cooperation between Primrose and the entourage behind him seemed spotty, the transitions inept, and the pace sluggish. However, the movement concluded without any major mishap...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Today, Ibsen-dotting every i, megaphoning every idea-seems most merciless toward his audience. And the current production is not only didactic, but thoroughly inept. Maurice Evans, for example, portrays Hialmar so broadly that he might be playing Micawber, so stagily that he might be spouting blank verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...such a high position among the world's conductors. The elephantine Frenchman handled the orchestra as if he owned it. He led it safely through the rhythmic complexities of Debussy, and went on to revitalize a bunch of Wagnerian warhorses that have been all but killed by dozens of inept performances. The response to Monteux's steady, relaxed beat was nearly perfect, and the obvious rapport between conductor and orchestra resulted in quick run--throughs of most of the music...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: From the Pit | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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