Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer articles are often as slipshod as the layout. For instance, an article in the Spring issue, "Take as Directed," tells the story of a 1969 high school class that developed into a mass psychology project. It attempts to make a statement on fascism in America and suggests how easily it could happen here. But it makes no statement; and ironically, the editors have devoted four pages earlier in the issue to ascetic unto death California Governor Jerry Brown's prayer breakfast. The prayer breakfast is a favorite arm-twisting device of southern Democratic senators. Brown's was replete with...
...Slipshod defense enabled the Blue to outslog Harvard on the muddy field en route to a 4-0 half time lead. Andover outshot the stickmen 16-12 in the opening half...
...postal problem: "It is wishful thinking to believe that we can continue the kind of service we have enjoyed and which has been remarkably beneficial to the country without providing substantial funds from the general treasury. To be sure we must ferret out waste, and we cannot tolerate slipshod management. But money will still be needed over and above that generated by postal rates...
...most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays would have hung together if David Cohen had been more commanding in the role of the snake...
...revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...