Word: ineptness
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...June 1966, argued that "What happens in South Vietnam will determine--yes, it will determine--whether ambitious and aggressive nations can use guerrilla warfare to conquer their weaker neighbors." The Administration views the underdeveloped world as a dry tinderbox of social and economic injustice ruled by weak and inept regimes; it believes that a spark from China may engulf the whole third world in revolutionary flames; it fears the emergency of increasing numbers of "regimes responsive to Peiping's will." How tenable are these views of "wars of national liberation...
Harvard clinched the Greater Boston League baseball title with a 16-0 win over inept Brandeis at Waltham yesterday, but saw runnerup Boston College named to the NCAA regional playoffs in the Crimson's place...
Although it seems incredible that a single square foot of Civil War battleground has remained unchronicled or unfictionalized, American writers long ignored this episode, perhaps because it reflected glory on neither Union nor Confederate colors (there was to be a congressional investigation of the scandalously inept, beer-blurred defense of Fort Pillow by its federal troopers). Now the story has been told in a first novel of remarkable merit...
...also a shadowless personality, inept in his love life. Thus, to compensate for his own inadequacies, he exaggerates Dean's qualities almost to the point of inventing a new character; he fears his creation as he must fear "all men who are successful in love...
...transforming his words into images. Director Strick has preserved on his sound track as many of Joyce's words as he could, but most of the time he has used the images as a lecturer uses slides: simply to illustrate what is being said. Often the illustrations are inept. Joyce was half blind, and his Dublin is a city dimly seen but fantastically imagined. Strick's Dublin, however, is the ordinary place that shows up on postcards-even when Bloom sinks into parodic delusions of grandeur, the images in his fantasies remain invincibly normal and unexciting. The images...