Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things. Its inadequacies reinforce the observations which have already been made about our generation--that we are humorless, dry, undirected, inconclusive like the Yearbook, quiet. Or perhaps the trouble is Harvard, a Harvard with maturity and an inconclusive orthodoxy. Whether the fault is in our generation, feeling baffled and helpless, or merely in an aged and bloodless Harvard, Seniors will presently discover...
...power-mad blacks overstep the bounds of propriety to murder, plunder, and rape the helpless whites, who finally save themselves and the South "from complete anarchy" by banning together to form the good man's friend, the Ku Klux Klan...
Against Windmills. Though Malamud's people have a bad time of it, they are never just helpless victims of life. Out of each debacle they draw surprising strength; always ready to charge the next windmill. Helen is convinced she will eventually get the college education that will change her life. Frank Alpine knows that some day he will find the self-discipline to keep him from always turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing...
...their mastery of the situation, the quiz producers seem helpless before the major ailment afflicting their shows. The sum of $64.000 no longer inspires audience awe. Viewers have become so blase that the producers arbitrarily changed their rules to enable Schoolboy Strom to win as much as $256,000, and devised new rules to let Clerk Nadler keep winning too. More important, a kind of inflation has also hit the contestants: instead of the kind of ordinary people who struck a responsive chord in viewers, they now run to narrow specialists and photographic minds-"freaks," as the trade calls them...
Just Like Steam. The charm of the free piston engine is that it has many of the advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power...