Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaw writes, "idolized love but believed in cruelty." The War razed this fetid cathedral only to leave a desolate stone quarry. The post-war legacy of prostration, humiliation, and shattered faces demanded new artistic speech. Old men morosely questioned the value of their life's work. Young men felt helpless in the soul's prison of Europe. They had to free themselves from the Heldenlebens of the voluptuous past...
...Andalusian village of Mijas, running on the ticket of the moderate Socialist Workers party. When the army revolted against the republic, bloodletting took place in rural Mijas in retaliation. Recalling those events, Cortés says now: "I had no forces of order at my disposal. I was helpless to stop them. But they were not crimes by the people here. Others came from the outside...
...make any difference, that acceptance of our condition is the key to fulfillment. The strike was for many of us the first opportunity to discover that we are each of us individuals with the capacity for rational choices and independent action. Now that exams are approaching, everyone feels suddenly helpless: there seems to be no way of overcoming Harvard's reassertion of its control over us in the next month. But that control depends entirely on our willingness to co-operate. Since exams and the academic structure which they support are not in our interests as people...
...incredible brutality of the police in the Thursday morning bust. But why? Police violence has become accepted in our society, built into our ideology. Killing in Vietnam, remember, is not murder. It is not murder because it has a reason rooted in ideology. ("Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and they have a perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose--even for transforming murderers into judges."--Camus...
Captain Tom Nicosia passed to Ince on a fast break soon afterwards, and Ince put the ball past the helpless Cornell goalie. By this time, the Harvard team felt in control. Zuckerman and Jim Kilkowski finished the rout with goals number 11 and 12. Kilkowski was one of several midfielders who did a superb job picking up ground balls, a major factor...