Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a .30-06 hunting rifle. The zoo's director, Jack Marks, was appalled at Adams' death and shocked that anyone would have shot the lions in revenge. "The lions reacted as you or I would if someone invaded our home," he said. "An attack on a defenseless animal caged in a zoo is the product of a sick mind." Over $1,000 in spontaneous contributions has come in to the zoo, more than enough to replace the two lions, and another $1,000 has been sent as reward money for the capture of the lions' killer...
...group. There are 280,000 of them in Tokyo, 300,000 in Los Angeles, 500,000 in New York City, 700,000 in London, and more than a million in Mexico City (including strays). And they are all "doing it"-on sidewalks and park lawns, against fire hydrants and defenseless city tree trunks. In Manhattan recently, one proud brownstone owner was on his knees watering his few flowers when he suddenly felt his bald pate being used as a fire hydrant. When he leaped up snarling at the dog, its owner whipped out a police badge and threatened to arrest...
Like a carnivore among vegetarians, Cathcart careers through the defenseless. The Chaplain (Anthony Perkins) is chewed out for not writing inspirational sermons that will gain the unit a spread in the Saturday Evening Post. The flyers are ordered to raid civilian towns so that they can concentrate on producing nice tight bomb patterns in the aerial photographs. Most horrible of all, Lieut. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight) is encouraged in his murderous wartime profiteering...
THIS FUSION of powers-the "efficient secret" which Crossman finds so admirable-leaves the British people defenseless before the government. No Supreme Court, no legislature. The voter must count upon the ideology of the governing party. The heavy programmatic content of British politics, said Crossman, rescues the ministry from the amoral exercise of power. The Godkin Lectures keyed on personal and party power: the ideological restrictions on its use seemed almost an after-thought. But in The New Fabiun Essays, Crossman analyzed the pitfalls of pragmatism. It is direction-less-ideology begins where pragmatism fails. He could say, therefore, without...
...rooted in the infant's use of its own hand as a source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers, or to the impostor, who can regulate the time and place of his performance.) So, backstage, the actor goes through various defenses beforehand-holding a cigarette perhaps, or squeezing a rubber...