Word: fitful
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There seems to be a De Tocqueville quote to fit almost every action in contemporary America. But it was particularly apt to record last week that he wrote, in 1835, that "the great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit...
Costa is also a man of vigor and passion. A hardy, 200-pounder who keeps fit doing knee bends and arm exercises, he once gave a bear-hug abraco to an old army chum and cracked two of the officer's ribs. He is just as good at cracking knuckles. When, as commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware...
Over the last several years Harvard's Eastern tennis opponents have snugly fit into one of three classifications: one or two equals, a handful of inferiors, and a lot of untouchables...
Under a new, precedent-breaking foreign-investment code, Western firms will be allowed to provide up to 50% of a Yugoslavian company's capital. Foreign partners will be guaranteed not only their share of profits but also the right to pull out when they see fit. Almost apologetically, Yugoslavian Federal Assembly President Edvard Kardelj assures his Communist colleagues that the investment code was the only alternative to "becoming an economic and political appendage of the more developed countries...
Shocked and shattered by the Moors testimony, Lady Snow lays the motivation of the murders not to the dark cur rents of standard Freudian psychopathology but rather to Brady's library. "There are some books that are not fit for all people," she says, "and some people who are not fit for all books." Literature, she believes, is a model demanding emulation; if the model is violence, violence follows. "Their interests," she says of Brady and Hindley, "were sadomasochistic, titillatory and sado-Fascist, and in the bookshops they found practically all the pabulum they needed...