Word: ineptness
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While Reagan enjoyed some good luck, notably Christopher's unexpectedly inept campaign, his success was more a case of beginner's skill. Reagan was co-chairman of Barry Goldwater's campaign in California and one of Goldwater's most effective spokesmen in 1964. This year he heeded the advice of the political-management firm of Spencer-Roberts to bring his image closer to center. Without abandoning any conservative fundamentals-his platform embraces "fiscal responsibility" and rejects open-housing legislation -Reagan conveyed the impression of a responsible, vigorous crusader with all of the ardor and none...
...Inept King. Grade school children in parts of New York's Westchester County play individual games against a computer. In one, called the "Sumerian game," a player-king is asked how he wants to use the natural resources of the ancient kingdom called Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class...
...tennis team swept all nine matches with M.I.T.'s inept engineers yesterday for its second win of the season...
...French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says one psychoanalyst, "anger is a status symbol"), the American knows that he must drive as part of a group. Although Americans endure queues, bad service, inept repairmen, and surly sales help with remarkable stoicism, French Philosopher Jacques Maritain once suggested that they are impatient with life itself. Yet almost everyone has to learn patience in a complex modern society characterized by the growing interdependence between men and the growing reliance on brittle machines...
...assumption that the literary trends of the past century have had their gestation in the Square. You have to love Harvard to like this book. It strings together 150 selections from the Advocate's first hundred years, most of which lead you to believe that undergraduate writers are either inept thieves or self-conscious bores. Editor Jonathan Culler has attempted to justify each inclusion by fitting it into the Advocate's labored, changing definition of itself or by showing that the piece demonstrates the impact of belles-lettres on Harvard. Only the real chauvinist, the Harvard grad who moved only...