Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school system in which the children of ghetto classes are burdened year upon year with unbroken lines of substitute teachers--teachers unfit, unprepared, inexperienced, teachers who are not teachers, teachers who are fill-ins, who are temporary, who work at night or after school in other jobs, who do not know children, who do not know education, who are not concerned, who are not involved, who do not and cannot care about the lives expiring before them...
...thing. Collages, pop art, quotations from Hegal, and flower decorations relieved the monotony of beige paint. When the Commissioner of Health arrived to inspect it, he told a representative of the absentee landlord, "I wouldn't mind living here." Then he ordered the apartment be boarded up as "unfit for human habitation...
...Changes in the Design School must parallel changes in life," Sert said. "With congestion, pollution, and unfit housing in our cities, the architect must team with a cleaned-up waterway--and visions of the utopian sewer society of the future looms before his listeners...
...human starvation. The World Health Organization puts the worldwide loss of stored cereals at 33 million tons a year-enough to feed some 200 million people. Rats in a silo may eat only a few bushels of grain, but their droppings and hair make a far greater quantity unfit for human consumption...
...time for poets generally. There was a war on. In 1942, Lowell tried to serve first in the Army and then the Navy, only to be turned down by both as physically unfit (eyesight alone would have disqualified him). As the war went on, he changed his mind, or the war changed its character. When the draft called, he refused to report and wrote a letter to the President to explain why. He wrote not as a dissident citizen to the all-powerful President of the U.S. but haughtily as a Boston Lowell to a Hudson Valley Roosevelt: "You will...