Word: ineptness
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...centuries Harvard has connoted truth, scholarship, and culture. I find the connotation valid. Evidence of the institution's discovery of truth, and achievement of scholarship is so manifest in the history of the world that words are inept. I prefer, therefore, to use the allotted space in recounting an incident in the area of that somewhat nebulous realm called the culture of Harvard...
...desk, made frequent trips to U.S. military installations around the world when he might better have spent more time in his office. Presenting the defense budget to Congress this year, he seemed distressingly unfamiliar with important details of one of the world's most complex jobs, made several inept slips, e.g., he said the first U.S. ICBMs would be operational in July 1959, when in fact the target date was January 1960. Moreover, McElroy undermined his own Washington prestige by confirming rumors that he planned to leave his $25,000-a-year post in late 1959 or early...
...athletic squads out of New Haven are about as rare as good breakfasteggs out of the Central Kitchen; and so a long-suffering Harvard rooter will, perhaps, be excused for rubbing it in a little, when the Elis appeared as inept as they did yesterday afternoon...
Most publicized new arrivals in Alaska are the "Fifty-Niners," an eager motorcade of 37 pioneers who left Detroit last March to make their homes in the new state. Beset by breakdowns and inept leadership ("Thirty minutes after we left Detroit we were lost," says a newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...Commerce Committee is treating Lewis Strauss' nomination as Secretary of Commerce. There is no excuse for the Committee's not having presented a far longer, more detailed and more competently argued case against Strauss than its members have done so far. The prosecution of the nominee has been dangerously inept, and though Strauss' defense has been characteristically evasive, the case against his confirmation has been little stronger...