Word: defenselessness
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...hoped it would be "the people's department." But has it turned out that way? Ralph Nader thinks not. In a 491-page report by one of his indefatigable groups of "Raiders," Nader charges that the department favors big "agribusiness" and fails to protect otherwise defenseless Americans from bad meat, contaminated poultry and toxic pesticides...
...Time has been aided by people who should know better. The black press has often out-Timed Time in lapidating the book and in denouncing its author as a traitor to the cause and as a CIA dupe/agent. Williams has been portrayed as a money-motivated ghoul robbing the defenseless grave of King. Certain members of the black intelligentsia have even threatened to dig their cherished amulet, legal action, out of mothballs and employ it as a crucifix against this new vampire...
...organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
...circumstances be treated humanely." Among specific prohibitions: "collective penalties," such as burning villages that may harbor guerrillas. Moreover, the 1907 Hague Convention prohibits "the attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended." Thus a B-52 bomber raid that strikes defenseless, invisible people below is no more lawful than Calley's gunning down of villagers standing in front of him. But if the planned target is militarily defended, the legal situation is different...
...organized, and no amount of pleading or remonstration could induce the attackers to desist. They were asked to cease in the name of freedom. They chanted on. They were asked to cease in the name of peace. They chanted more savagely. And even when their violence had crushed the defenseless freedoms of others in the audience, their chants of power thundered on, though victory had deprived them of their victims...