Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suffers Pain. The big question is Wallace's health. He can hardly be considered fit, though his doctors pronounce him healthy enough to be President. He suffers pain around his waist and takes drugs for it. He lacks control over his bladder and bowels, though these are regulated by medical devices to spare him any embarrassment. How he would survive the stresses of the presidency is anybody's guess. President Franklin Roosevelt was also confined to a wheelchair, but only his legs were paralyzed. Still, Wallace is making the most of the comparison. Says he: "F.D.R...
Even if New Jersey had a rule on brain death, Karen's case would not quite fit because of her slight brain activity and occasional spontaneous breathing. To cut off life support now might therefore fall within the area of euthanasia. In outright cases of euthanasia-"when someone is suffering from a terminal disease and you inject a drug to terminate life," as Dr. Winter puts it -the law demands a verdict of intentional homicide. But on the question of a doctor shutting off a life-supporting machine and permitting a patient to die, the law is largely silent...
...community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce it in underground safety. Dissenters are executed by a humanoid robot dressed in overalls who snaps necks with his huge hands. Not too surprisingly, Vic doesn't fit into the Topekan society with its concern for law and order at any cost, including that of social and physical sterility. In the end, he returns to the surface with Quilla June to face the dangers of what is, to him, a saner world...
...with very little, not so much about Hall but about where to place him, how to get a grip on his ideas. That he was a revolutionary seems clear, but it is far from clear why he felt the need to put the Southern past through impossible contortions to fit his own ideology. He must have been Southern enough, I guess, to be unable to disassociate himself from history. He must have been troubled about that enough, though, to look for something usable in a past that contained little for him to sympathize with...
...Supplemental airlines, now engaged mostly in charter business, could expand into flying scheduled routes, and companies that wanted to start new airlines would be encouraged to do so, on routes of their own choice, if they were "fit, willing and able...