Word: unfitness
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...drama of these people is that they have recoiled from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody of Gloria. The tabloids made the most...
...years by being certified insane. The board of Washington psychiatrists who certified him thus revived many laymen's suspicions about poets in general. Psychiatrists described Poet Pound, awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), as "abnormally grandiose, expansive and exuberant in manner," judged him "mentally unfit" to defend himself, had him packed off to a local asylum...
...native, Ezra Pound, 60, was home to stay. The positive manner was gone with the cape and stick; his eyes were rheumy, his beard wilted. His lawyer in the capital's U.S. District Court, where he stood indicted on 19 counts of treason, said senility had made him unfit for trial, and asked that he be placed under psychiatric observation...
Harvard's use of every available play and player in Saturday's 60 to 0 landslide may have been good showmanship, but the very existence of a game against such an unfit opponent as Boston University may yet backfire this Saturday. Anyone who saw the game must realize that B.U. is probably the most appallingly weak eleven that has appeared in the Harvard Stadium since Grover Cleveland sat in the Presidential chair...