Word: ineptness
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Granted, Harvard did put down the Judge challenge, winning the match 19-8, but between the failures of the electrical judging equipment, the lateness of the director, and the downright tedium of watching good fencers fence inept ones, while looking inept in the process themselves, it was an evening better spent at home reading up for the new term...
...discreet, more cautious about baring my soul." He summed up by insisting: "I don't think the American people got a true picture of my campaign." Of course, the reverse may have been true-that too many Americans got a reasonably clear picture of a well-meant but inept campaign. Or that the majority of Americans understood his message and simply rejected...
...Industrial Management and Participation), was created by the Italian government 18 months ago to revive fundamentally strong firms that have fallen on hard times. And times have been particularly hard for Italy's industry in the past three or four years. Under the impact of incessant strikes, inept management, stiffening foreign competition and generally dismal economic conditions, Italian companies have been disappearing as fast as scampi at a gondolier's picnic. About 1,500 plants closed in 1970 alone...
Traditionally, in the world of sports, there are teams that are so inept that they end up being very good entertainment. When the undefeated Harvard swimming team travels to Providence and the oldest college pool in the country Saturday to face hapless Brown, the Bruins may have a great deal of trouble keeping a straight face...
...interests of seasonal dictates concerning goodwill, it can be said that this John Huston movie, which is inept in almost every regard, contains a performance of astonishing virtuosity by Bruno the Bear. He is large, brown, furry and friendly. He bites cigars from mouths gently but firmly. He guzzles bottles of beer with almost balletic finesse. He steals scenes effortlessly from Paul Newman, which is, alas, not quite so difficult as it once might have been. He fights bravely and dies heroically but prematurely-long before the movie has meandered to a close. Besides Newman, playing a desperado who dabbles...