Word: witlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that in The Animal Kingdom Norman Shapiro 3G should have wasted his talent on some of Ogden Nash's worst poetry. The verses are far too brief for any significant musical development, and their "humor" unrelentingly witless. Perhaps in the future Shapiro will apply his obvious skill to more worthy material...
Both the Ridgway and Williams dissents were inevitable expressions of the views of their respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...
...teapot arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a Fifth Amendment Communist officer ... It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of certain Army brass." In clear reference to General Zwicker, McCarthy said: "If a stupid, arrogant or witless man in a position of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be exposed...
...advertising boasts "The original New York cast"-cunningly masking the players' well-deserved obscurity by mentioning no names. Authors-or, more accurately, collectors-Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo-have created an amalgam of petty and trite attacks on the seventh Commandment interlarded with witless and fatigued dialogue. It takes a whole act to establish the fact that a chubby blonde is overly matey with the males in her apartment house and that her husband doesn't particularly like it. In fact, he insists on moving to another apartment. But the long arm of concidence reaches about corners to chuckle...
...pity the hack who in the guise of an obituary has tried to cut down Eugene O'Neill to the size of the obit-writer. It is bad enough for the witless and mean-spirited to judge their living betters ; when they cut coffins for the gifted dead to the shape and size of their own malformed souls it is un forgivable...