Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public office should be denied only to those clearly unfit to serve-for example, an ex-official convicted of taking bribes. "It is rarely necessary to provide for automatic disqualification to protect society...
...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...
...have a strong suspicion that the composer of Time Cycle and Echoi has not suddenly stopped writing masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony ("The death agonies of an eviscerated serpent"). ANDREW STILLER Madison...
Cities and their suburbs are both ideals and horrors at the same time. ideals and overcrowding threaten, but somehow the city manages to retain its image as the potentially perfect environment. Suburbs, constantly under attack as unfit for family life, are still sought by most home-buyers as the best place to live. And amid public and private disillusionment, the redevelopers in the city and the developers in the suburbs consume land at the rate of a million acres...
Powell is unfit to represent any group of people in Congress, let alone those benighted souls in Harlem, who need the most capable leadership and guidance that can be found among their numbers. ROBERT A. SMITHEY University of Wisconsin Madison