Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate of being Querry. A leading leper has been assigned to him as a "boy"; his name-and only Graham Greene could think of this-is Deo Gratias. Toeless, fingerless, he gets about; he is a "burntout" or arrested case, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged the leper to carry a warning bell and cry of himself, "Unclean...
...Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, prompted Publisher John S. Knight's Miami Herald to part company, at least for the moment, with Kennedy. Although Murrow speaks with "passionate clarity," said the Herald, his self-confessed failure,as an executive at CBS renders him unfit for the post: "For once, the President is impractical...
...Yale player who flunked out but got his year of eligibility back when a doctor declared him psychologically unfit for college--an exemption becouse of "illness...
Commenting on the difficulties of African students in gaining an education, Nkosi mentioned an acquaintance who was denied permission to leave the country to study. Claimed the government: he would be "unfit to take his proper place in South African society after an American education...
...didn't last. And Nigeria has at last warmed up to U.S.-style education. For years British-trained Nigerians chained students to a syllabus that taught all about 18th century England; they scorned as unfit for Nigeria the U.S. blend of liberal and practical schooling. That attitude is now dying. Converts include such once ferocious critics as the Western Region's former Education Minister Stephen Awokoya, who visited the U.S., changed his mind one night in a Boston hotel. Said he: "If this system of education can develop the highly admirable culture that exists in the U.S. today...