Word: unfitness
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...faction charged that Marvin was unfit for class leadership. This time they were joined by Powers, and formed a special committee of Powers, George H. Hanford '41 and David D. Henry '41. This committee has been leading class affairs ever since...
...notes, are "dropouts from society before we get them. If we save three out of four, or two out of three, that's a miracle right there." Many arrive as complete illiterates; 79% have never seen a doctor, 85% a dentist. One in six has been rejected as unfit for military service. The camps have indeed had their problems-sodomy, knifings, thefts, riots and vandalism in neighboring towns-and they are likely to continue...
Lacouture's piece on De Gaulle is written with a delicacy that is refreshing in contrast to the mere competence or polemical outrage of the other articles. De Gaulle, according to his longtime observer, is no overbearing dictator in the conventional sense. "Authoritarian by temper, unfit for negotiation, impatient in dispute, he wants to dominate by the highness of his thoughts and depth of his views, not by forcing upon," writes Lacouture...
...conceded that programs in some cities had been delayed because of failure to reach agreement with local officials or plain bad judgement. In Harlem, the OEO spent $40,000 to enable Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones to stage what Shriver described-mildly-as "vile racist plays in vile gutter language unfit for the youngsters in the audience...
...halve your room and board costs, and, reportedly, enjoy innumerable sumptuous home-cooked meals made by myraids of motherly Cliffies. For the particularly industrious, there are room-for-service arrangements and even positions as apartment house janitors. And, just possibly, if you can persuade some psychiatrist that you are unfit for regular House life, dormitory living, and central kitchen food, you might even be allowed to live in an apartment...