Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handyman & Thief. Gennaro is coffinmaker, wreathmaker, funeral-insurance salesman, handyman, business manager, and hearse driver. He is also poor, and in Naples that means powerless. Caught without a chauffeur's license, he is slapped with a staggering fine and forbidden to drive. In debt for tobacco, rent, and worst of all, for coffin lumber, he limps through one hand-mangling day heaving shovelfuls of earth for a huge industrial corporation-and gets fired for incompetence. Employed in a sizzling restaurant kitchen, he is falsely accused of theft, gets fired again...
...Council meeting, CCA and Independent councillors alike acclaimed the job Ward has done with minimal funds and assistance. They expressed regret that the Council is powerless under the Charter to rehire him or find him a similar position. It is now up to the new City Manager, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. He can do the City a great service by finding Ward a new position as soon as possible. The youth of the City need a man like Ward, and the City needs some semblance of unity if it is to face more important issues, such as the Inner Belt...
...President has not perceived that the tactics he mastered so well the Senate are not applicable to his dealings with the nation's press. On Capitol Hill he dealt with a group that accepted his strategems and was powerless to affect his Texas political fortunes. In the White House he must deal with the nation's press, not a group of colleagues. And he must also remember, although it rankles him, that what is written about him, and what is suppressed, sometime may shape as much public opinion as all those somber, reassuring speeches...
...nationalism has cooled, after the adolescence of the underdeveloped countries succumbs to maturity, some form of union may be the answer to many of the problems of today's young nations. Some day there could even be something like a United States of Africa. The new nations-powerless, bothersome and somewhat bizarre as many of them seem-will continue to proliferate for a long time. It seems inevitable that, at some point, the flow will have to be reversed, bringing to federations of small nations the stature in world affairs to which at present they can only vainly aspire...
...have changed, but the battles go on. There are now three political power spheres that are almost bound to collide in their rush to try to fill the post-Franco vacuum. Strangely enough, the Movimiento Nacional is not one of them. It has been reduced by Franco to a powerless bureaucracy, without credo and virtually without following, deprived even of the fascist ideals on which it was founded...