Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been times in the history of art when progress stopped-a kind of eddy, a period of confusion. Today seems just such a time with the artist, like Matthew Arnold's traveler, "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born...
...many Israelis could argue that the presence of American troops would undermine Israel's sovereignty and reduce it to a client state, always living in fear that the troops would be withdrawn if Washington objected to Jerusalem's policies. Israelis also note that U.S. units would be powerless to prevent terrorist attacks...
Sharing Leonard's and Poussaint's view is Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department. "Black administrators here are powerless," Guinier said...
However, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, challenges this opinion, maintaining that there is no racist barrier to his authority, and says he feels that "blacks who think they are powerless are suffering from pathological paranoia...
...only is there a feeling that blacks are powerless, but there is a general consensus among black administrators that tokenism exists at Harvard--a charge that received some substantiation from an examination of the directory of blacks at Harvard. It contains only 87 names. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone has 800 members...