Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia should be the varsity swimming team's third straight helpless victim in New York today. While the Lions have lost to Fordham, Rutgers, Brown, Navy, Princeton, and Dartmouth, beating only City College, Harvard has whipped Penn and Army decisively in its only two meets...
...article, as you remember, discussed the state of mind of Americans in the turmoil of the Great Debate. It pointed out that our leaders are too fearful; that they plot policy as if this nation were a helpless giant. It reviewed the too many cases in which the U.S. is thinking defensively (in terms of uncrossable lines and protective loops) instead of affirmatively about its spheres of interest around the world...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
Five years ago, none doubted the U.S. strength. Now doubts are everywhere. No neighborhood saloon lacks a master strate gist in can prove that the U.S. is helpless against the Reds in Korea or Indo-China, or Iran, or France. Such calamity-howling Clausewitzes are twice as thick in the Senate as in the saloons, twice as thick in the State Department as in the Senate, and twice as thick in the Pentagon as in the State Department...
...still a giant. What makes it feel helpless? The answer might be to find what is wrong with the Great Debate...