Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter knows the show is a sad commentary on the state of today's teenager. But the Beavis Generation is beyond expressing sentiment. It's powerless to do anything but laugh at itself...
...member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unlikely, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts- filled weekend. Overseer John LIthgow '67 went a long way toward changing that image of effectiveness. ARTSFirst shows that overseers can, if they choose, get invovled and make a difference. We wish more of them would follow Lithgow's example...
Mark Blitz of the Hudson Institute, an Indianapolis-based think-tank, argues that the persistence of conspiracy theories reflects a collective sense of impotency -- people feeling powerless before blind forces they cannot control. In its most benign form, this near paranoia confines itself to Elvis spotting. At worst it leads to convictions that the Jews -- or reactionary capitalists, or unreconstructed communists -- secretly control the world...
...member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unwieldy, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts-filled weekend, Overseer John Lithgow '67 went a long way toward changing that image of ineffectiveness. ARTSFirst shows that overseers can, if they choose, get involved and make a difference. We wish more of them would follow Lithgow's example...
...time for the most powerless in society to join this fight. Those who obey the law must tilt the law to their advantage, minimizing the excessive power of criminals and police officers...