Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours last week Britain's mammoth liner Queen Mary lay at a Southampton wharf as helpless as a beached whale. Her promenade decks and immense saloons crawled with distinguished passengers in mink wraps and Homburg hats...
Then the Prosecutor could turn to India: "Everywhere the armed and the many devoured the helpless and the few. In Calcutta, in Lahore, in Amritsar, in Old Delhi and New Delhi and throughout the magnificent plain of the dismembered Punjab, in homes and shops and factories and farms and villages and in the religious sanctuaries of all faiths, amid the clotting of the terrified in depots and on guarded trains and on lonely station platforms and in the vast shelterless encampments of refugees and their hypnotized columns across the land, the devastation raged alike among Hindus and Moslems and Sikhs...
...John Tanner, who knows what women are up to but is helpless in the face of the "life force" (sex), Maurice Evans is playing his first non-Shakespearean role in ten years. But you wouldn't always know...
...Europe becomes more helpless the Americans are compelled to become far-seeing and responsible, as Rome was forced by the long decline of Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil. Our [European] impotence liberates their [American] potentialities. Something important is about to happen...
...smooth away a rough, wholesome play cannot be completely successful. Where the treatment of "Earnest" was natural and right, in "Man and Superman" it is artificial, and when the power of Shaw's ideas does break through, both the cast and the audience are left both embarrassed and helpless. But after a painful farewell to George Bernard Shaw, one can trot down to the Shubert and be amused...