Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerson missed the point. The essay was the strong call of one invincible conscience, and it took the measure of any strong conscience's invincibility. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly," Thoreau wrote, "the true place for a just man is also a prison. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose...
...affair is regarded as a case study in academic politics. As in any politics the fate of a proposal depends not only on what its substance is, but on who does the proposing. The sponsors of the senior seminar plan were drawn from the Department's virtually powerless junior faculty, while the men who came up with the idea of junior generals were all established senior faculty members. Small wonder, then, that the tutors' initiative took a form that they had never intended...
...this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
During the summer, when there were demonstrations almost every day, the mayor and the police chief admitted they were powerless to protect Negro lives and property. They called on Louisiana Governor John McKeithen, who sent in 600 state troopers, armed them with submachine guns, and told them to protect the marchers. Still there were incidents...
Most dangerous sparks of all, however, were flying in Zambia, Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, where moderate President Kenneth Kaunda was under mounting pressure to do something about the Smith takeover. Powerless to act on his own, and dependent on Rhodesian railroads and power to keep his vital copper exports flowing, Kaunda found himself being pressed to accept troops from those two eager conspirators, Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as military aid from Moscow and Peking. Kaunda wants no part of it. He believes there is real danger that Rhodesia could...