Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those days, it was called the "White Man's Burden." Today, it's the "responsibility of the international community." The name has changed, but the sentiments haven't. There is still an underlying assumption of helpless, uncivilized natives and helpful, civilized nations. That assumption reeks of a gross underestimation of the people we went to "help...
...overflowing display of green. And white. And red. And orange. And brown. I counted something like ten different colors of plants and flowers in the storefront, plus about one gazillion different tones of said colors. The visual effect can be dumbfounding; in my notebook I have one helpless observation: "flowers everywhere...
...young, attractive actor-singers give heartfelt performances nonetheless, never condescending to the characters but finding dignity in their primal passions. In particular, Willard White and Cynthia Haymon invest the title roles with wrenching believability. In Nunn's conception, the crippled beggar Porgy is less pathetic and helpless than in most productions, hobbling on crutches instead of pushing himself on a cart. At the end he flings away his crutches and, in search of his missing Bess, lurches off painfully, heroically into a blaze of backlighting. It's a dazzling final image, but one that also points up the drawback...
...Hurricane Emily inched toward land, several hotlines were set up for anxious residents to phone in their concerns. The lines were flooded with callers who felt helpless, depressed and, above all, downright scared...
...overriding problem that faces these three groups is a kind of law of diminishing returns. As they lose money, they lose influence, and then they are helpless to avoid losing more money. If they start with little political and economic capital, they are helpless against those who have more, much more. We need a government agency to lend assistance to those in the most dire need, a sort of public defender in the lobbying arena. If politicians can turn their backs on the power brokers for a little while, they can save these groups before they fade out of existence...