Word: unfit
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Other characters loom large throughout the book, not in their own right, but as anchors in Fox’s sea of impermanence, however unfit for the job they may have been. Fox’s mother is portrayed as unrelentingly cruel and unstable, a woman who hurled a glass of water at her young daughter’s back and begrudged her grown daughter a previous gift of a picture of her grandfather. “How could it be that Elsie was enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly for a term...
...discipline Americans need to learn? Following this logic, one would have to conclude that terrorists and those who incite them are spiritually nourished and intelligent and that their "self-confident relentlessness" is something to aspire to. People with less emotional and more thoughtful approaches to crises are not "unfit for decent company," as Morrow puts it; rather, they are the real patriots who truly love their country and the human possibilities it stands for. KATHERINE MEEKS New York City...
...Rame have themselves declared their satirical works unfit for the current climate in America and around the world. The two admit that they have performed in times of crisis and of mourning before as part of their commitment to political theater; but then, their works were born from those events and told their stories...
...worked out a novel strategy to define when to activate his living trust--a document that designates people to manage his affairs if he no longer can. He has named his wife and his three closest friends to a competency committee, and granted them the power to declare him unfit and take control. Says Hankin: "I want to be protected before I start trying to eat grapes off the wallpaper...
...more than one previous history, but no other writer has gone as deeply into the archives to marshall the strong proof that Levin presents." Levin had access to the original notes from Wilson's physician, which show that Wilson's stroke was devastating. "The man was, by definition, unfit and unable to hold office. And the unelected Mrs. Wilson, it appears, violated both the public trust and the Constitution when she, posing as her husband's spokesperson, made executive branch policy...