Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed and brought into existence by the Constitution and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen? We think not. On the contrary, [Negroes] were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings . . . altogether unfit to associate with the white race...
...Pearson's speech in favor of accepting nuclear arms for Canada's defense forces, promised him that no other Canadian politician "has gained as many devoted friends in my country as you have." As for the Conservatives then in power, they were "narrow-minded" in their policy, "unfit" to run the country, and would now be forced to echo Pearson's statements. "At the first opportune moment," concluded the letter, "I would like to discuss with you how we could be useful to you in the future. You can always count on our support...
...mulatto, he had a hunch that his master was his father. At about the age of seven, he was loaned to his master's relatives in Baltimore, where his new mistress started to teach him to read until her husband grumbled that literacy would make the boy "unfit to be a slave." Douglass snitched books from the house and bribed little white boys to help him with the hard words. He scrawled letters on any available walls. Eventually he mastered the language and held classes to teach his fellow slaves. "Those," he recalled, "were great days to my soul...
...about the accepted view that a Communist professor is automatically dishonest and thus unfit to teach? "The fundamental principle of American justice," says Machlup, is "that guilt is personal and cannot be proved by opinion or association; we cannot make party membership a decisive criterion." If the Communist is demonstrably dishonest, he must go. Then, suppose he honestly preaches totalitarianism? "If we silence him," says Machlup, "then we have actually abrogated freedom of speech, whereas he has merely talked about doing...
Divorced. By James Arness. 39, towering (19½ hands) horse opera star (Gun-smoke): Virginia Chapman Arness. 41, who lost the custody of their two children to Arness (he charged she was unfit to raise them, had last month allowed their 12-year-old daughter to drink, causing the girl to be hospitalized with acute alcoholic poisoning); after 14 years of marriage, five of separation; in Los Angeles...