Word: unpreparedness
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"Culture is what remains when everything else is forgotten," runs an old French proverb. Consequently, upper-bracket tradition has it that youth studies the classics. The liberal professions are overcrowded. Hundreds of philosophy, literature and history majors appear as candidates for a handful of university teaching jobs; openings for scientists...
"She's a bonny woman," said a mill girl as the red and black Rolls-Royce with the royal standard fluttering above its radiator crept through a Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved...
"Two seniors, supposedly friends and both candidates for the same medical school . . . were about to take an important examination in chemistry. One confessed to the other that, should a certain question be asked, he was unprepared to give the correct answer. His classmate proceeded to give him the wrong answer...
There was no great national issue to bind the House races together in a package for either party. Many winners were entirely unprepared for the results, a situation best summed up by a flustered Democrat, Mrs. Martha Griffiths, who won a Detroit seat from the G.O.P. Posing for her election...
Many Divinity students, according to Coffee, fear that the elimination of Church History 4, "once the very center of academic life," from the curriculum, will leave the Divinity student unprepared for his general examinations.