Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Council, led by Thomas Matters '43, president, and Adam Yarmolinsky '43, secretary, struggled on with eventful issues; but in October it merely recommended to the Faculty that Harvard adopt a year-long trimester schedule or keep the two semester-cum-twelve week summer period, and was immediately branded "powerless" for its equivocal efforts. On October 5, the Crimson football team locked helmets with mighty Penn, but though Coach Harlow's boys struggled like friends, they lost...
...defending the constitutional status quo, though, Trudeau best reveals the modernity of his thinking. He sees nationalism in French Canada as having replaced the Church as the force of social counter-revolution. Several years ago he described the Quebec separatist movement as "the work of a powerless petit-bourgeois minority afraid to be left behind by the twentieth century revolution," and it is clear that he has now extended the analysis to include nationalists such as Mr. Johnson...
...marvelled at my history of infirmity and disease. He grimaced a bit at my answer to the question on my state of health. I had admitted there that "I have had very poor health since the war in Vietnam started. I am often extremely depressed and feel powerless...
...eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past, was rare; by week's end, riot-connected deaths in the U.S. totaled more than...
...Gaulle is extremely thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then, on his accession...