Word: helplessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lulu from two plays by the German actor-writer Frank Wedekind. It is a thing of violence and sensuality, set out in the glares and black shadows of fin de siecle romanticism. Singing in clipped, high-tension German, lustful Lulu causes one violent death after another among her helpless lovers. Then the pace slackens and she moves sonorously toward her own destruction hy Jack the Ripper...
...vulgar mass arts and mechanical gadgets . . . a police state, ruled by Finance Capital through venal, illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth...
...this third and most important volume of his memoirs, telling of his ordeal, Hoover writes as a man in anguished earnest, a man whose pride of historical place has been irretrievably hurt. As Hoover sees it, he was far from being the helpless victim of uncontrollable economic forces. Though it may come as a surprise to many wounded veterans of the Great Depression, he insists that he knew just what to do, and was vigorously doing it when his opponents took power, threw away all his gains and prolonged the depression for seven more years...
...until the first frost might bring them under control. But until colder weather, many Chicagoans will continue to share their homes with crickets. And, in lieu of their preferred diet of grass and grain, the crickets will continue to chew on the lace curtains and starched clothing of their helpless hosts...
...were coming around to Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping the man who expropriated Anglo-Iranian's wealth would be too humiliating. Britain, predicted one observer, would pursue a policy of masterly inactivity...