Word: unfitness
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...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...
...licensing for ex-offenders needs a "thorough overhaul." A dangerous driver is obviously unfit for a driver's license; a stickup artist should never get a pistol permit. But why require "good character" for a barber's license? A better rule: "Criminal convictions should be considered only to the extent actually relevant to fitness to participate in activities posing particular dangers to society...
...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...