Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lacking the legal authority to impose a solution, the Labor government and the courts appear to be powerless. Indeed, the Grunwick siege has raised some fundamental questions about the ability of Britain's democratic institutions to resolve labor disputes...
...certain that any type of economic or political system would change the way people behave toward one another." Tyndall is planning to go to law school and specialize in environmental law or some other area in which he can "help people and causes that are powerless to gain power...
...were also prophetic for the drug culture of the '60s and the trivialized mysticism of the '70s. The Feminization of American Culture attempts to tap an underground current. It is that meandering flow of frustrations, veiled hostilities and confusions about power and innocence so common to the powerless...
...Christ." Moltmann believes that the church, caught in the ambiguities of the present, must grasp both the past and the future. Without this balance, he warns, the maintenance of church institutions can become all-important, and belief in Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection could "decay into a powerless historical recollection...
...called history. Morante prefaces her chapters (each of which deals with the occurrences of a single year) with lists of events that come close enough to scorch the Roman populace: treaties made and broken, victories, slaughters, final solutions, barbarities parading as statecraft. This constant juxtaposition of power and the powerless begins as an easy irony but slowly swells toward a cosmic pathos. While Mussolini strutted like a deranged buffoon, "Rome took on the appearance of certain Indian metropolises where only the vultures get enough to eat and there is no census of the living and the dead...