Word: ineptness
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Cohen's campus job-unique in academe-was the idea of U.S.C. Dean Donald Lewis, a harsh critic of the bum-bung classroom performances of many college teachers. Lewis is particularly impatient with "typically inept" professors who read old and boring lecture notes to freshmen, most of whom are accustomed to watching fast-paced television programs. "The students catch on quickly," he says. "Soon they don't even show...
...jury was finally convinced of all this (the inept defense masterminded by Manson helped), and Bugliosi won death sentences for Manson and three women followers. A male accomplice was convicted later. During and after the trial, the ranks of the family grew...
...among teenagers. That ugly incident prompted Republican Governor Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted about the mini-mobilization. His office released a memo calling the Guard "inept, incompetent and ill-equipped." He feared another Kent State tragedy, even though the Massachusetts guardsmen were not issued firearms. The White House turned down a request from Sargent for federal troops, but later alerted regular Army paratroopers in Fort...
Though many (President Bok included, no doubt) would shun the sub-vocalizings of the more inept ideologues of white supremacy--the geneticists of a new type (scientists in name, white supremacists in deed)--a frank appraisal of the situation suggests that their influence at Harvard is stronger than Harvard's public liberal image admits. How they came to wield such power, even in the presidents' office, is a mystery which at this point only President Bok can unravel. Although some clues in that mystery can only be provided by President Bok, I would like briefly to locate a few essential...
...exquisite ironies. It was the arrogance of his predecessors, the Greek military dictatorship that had masterminded the overthrow of Archbishop Makarios as a move toward unification of Greece and Cyprus, that led to the Turkish invasion of the island July 20 and the fall of the inept junta in Athens. Now, if Caramanlis gives in totally to the Turks, his new government may in its turn collapse and the military-or a much less likely dictatorship of the left-may once again come back...