Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...WITLESS pedantry it is difficult to match the Faculty's empty condemnation of the war last Tuesday. Their vote ignored the real strike concerns raised by undergraduates, graduate students, and teaching fellows. Even President Pusey has been more sympathetic- to the shock of many the Administration has come out further to the left than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One must credit the usually sluggish Administration for whatever progressive response being made so far. They, at least realize the stakes...
...from Olympus to reassure himself of his immortality, he ventures from his studio on the Rue Boissonnade to loaf among the plebs until inspiration returns. But no sooner is he in "the circle of the frivolous damned" than the world's petty annoyances close in. Brother Georges, a witless executive living far beyond his means and on the verge of ruin, asks for and gets the balance in Pluche's bank account. Brother-in-Law Mesnard, an immensely successful painter who sold his talent out to fashionable tastes, has taken up with a young bird and threatens...
...Conway Show, which premieres on CBS this week, is also a witless formula sitcom, starring the ex-McHale's Navyman as pilot of a broken-down, one-plane airline. In the first episode, Conway gets locked out of the cockpit in midflight. Hilarious...
...along with them. Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with all the kick of day-old cerveza...