Word: ineptness
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Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the heroine Yerma (Gloria Foster) yearns publicly and privately to have a baby. The playgoer comes out of this hot bathos convinced that this Spanish , town could certainly use an adoption agency...
Profusion of Titles. Founded as a literary weekly in 1826 and named for the cunning barber hero of the Beaumarchais play, Figaro survived a succession of inept owners, became a daily in 1866. Somehow, it weathered all storms. By supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it lost half its circulation, but the readers slowly returned. On the eve of World War I, the wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, offended by the paper's attacks on her husband, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette. During...
...Hara shifts with ease from the gilded but ghastly life of the West Coast and jet-set Manhattan to the grubby, proletarian reality of small towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His inept storekeeper, Lintzie, in Gibbsville and his Mrs. Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...
...main cause for worry against the offensively inept Tiger booters was that Princeton's defense might hold Harvard to a scoreless tie, as it held Dartmouth and Rutgers...
...affects the individual American, he pays heavily for transportation inefficiency in other ways. He pays for it in the price of the clothes or the food or the household goods he buys, for it is invariably passed on through the price structure. He pays for lack of planning and inept regulation as his cities become concrete deserts where only autos and auto parks seem to thrive. If he is a businessman, the cost of inefficiency may be high. A 65-m.p.h. train can move steel slabs from the furnaces of Lackawanna, N.Y., and deliver them still hot at an Indiana...