Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convicted and then sentenced to 14 to 25 years. But in February 1975 an Illinois Appellate Court reversed that conviction on grounds that it was "constitutionally impermissible" because it was impossible during the trial to compensate for Lang's inability to communicate. After another hearing, he was declared unfit to stand trial, and again he was sent to a state hospital for safekeeping...
Though he has long since turned in his scalpel, ex-Surgeon Edgar Berman still knows how to be cutting. A few years ago, he touched off feminist outrage by suggesting that women might be unfit for the presidency because of their "raging hormonal influences." Unchastened, the Maryland doctor-author, who limits his practice these days to a few old friends, including Senator Hubert Humphrey,* has now taken on a new adversary. In an outrageously satiric book titled The Solid Gold Stethoscope (Macmillan; $7.95), he lays open the foibles and failings of his fellow doctors...
...other major rating service, had continued to give MAC bonds an A-plus rating. But no one questioned Moody's motives until last week, when Felix Rohatyn, feisty, flamboyant chairman of MAC, demanded that the firm disqualify itself from evaluating MAC bonds because its political bias made it "unfit" A few days later in Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert Gerard cautiously agreed that if Moody's were basing its judgment on such political considerations as what the New York legislature might do next, the firm should suspend its rating of MAC bonds...
...contrived by the New York Times. The paper was offered the story at the same time as NBC, but editors held it because, as one said, "People might accuse us of trying to manipulate the campaign." When the story finally did run, the paper found all the "screws" unfit to print, reporting only that Carter had "used a vulgarism for sexual relations." That tasteful ambiguity led many readers to wonder whether Carter had employed an even worse vulgarism, and the Times next day was more specific: "a common but mild vulgarism for sexual intercourse." Explained Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal...
...plac'd near sepulchral urns,/ Or like the glowworm in the night,/ It gleams with melancholy light." Although John Adams is not an avowed adherent of this ethic, its influence is apparent in his recent explanation of why women should be denied the vote: "Their delicacy renders them unfit for practice and experience in the great businesses of life...