Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growth came only with high inflation and bloated government deficits, but a glorious recovery spurred by the private sector with low prices. They would also cut taxes, increase of defense spending, and balance the budget. And this recovery was especially unique since it was invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid...
...federal history, he gulped "none of us really understands what's going with these numbers." As he staggered back, he wondered "do you realize the greed coming to the forefront? The hogs are really feeding." Fearing that he would be called stupid or, worse, unfit for his job, he told his findings to no one, except a friend who happened to be a reporter freelancing for a major magazine. When the swindlers asked, "What do you think, isn't it lovely?" the presidential confidante responded, "Yes, great, I'll tell the emperor to stay the course...
...nobleman of nature who trailblazes into a wilderness of the spirit and emerges stronger and wiser. Alda's modern pathfinder is also very much a man of the mid-20th century: liberally educated and not reluctant to parade it, perversely triumphant in a milieu he blithely declares himself unfit to inhabit, japing and shambling after women, with a quip and an invisible cigar, like a Wasp Groucho. In later episodes, Hawkeye occasionally looked as if he were campaigning for canonization. But he could still bend, and come near breaking, whether in realizing he had a serious drinking problem...
...MOST DRAMATIC series of letters involves MacLeish's efforts to free Ezra Pound. In 1955 he visited Pound in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital, where Pound had been held since the war as unfit to stand trial for treason. He writes to Hemingway, "What I saw made me sick and I made up my mind I wouldn't rest till he got out. Not only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice...
...between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...