Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorkers consider the mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the mayor is powerless to halt the city's decline. In fact, recent charter revisions have given the mayor of New York extraordinary new executive powers, which the outgoing administration did not utilize to best advantage...
...struggles which the island underwent in his lifetime, the "freedom or death" atmosphere which he describes in the book of that name, seem to have given him the faith that ours is a cosmic age. How different from the men "wandering between two worlds, one dead/And the other powerless to be born...
...blacks be guaranteed control of the government within the foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament, and the creation of an almost powerless senate composed of twelve African chiefs (who depend for their livelihood on the government). Any further freedoms for the blacks were absolutely refused...
...only as far as grammar school-"a waiter's education," as one African puts it. The nation has only three African lawyers, a dozen African doctors and not a single African in a key civil-service post. The few blacks allowed to sit in the legislature are powerless and afraid, for police-state laws allow the regime to confine any suspected troublemaker indefinitely and without explanation. The African congressmen, moreover, were all nominated by essentially white parties: the two major African political organizations have long ago been banned. One is the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), whose...
...about intervention from the outside: "When, in other words, a Communist state has intervened in the internal affairs of an American state by training, directing, financing and organizing indigenous Communist elements to take control by force and violence. Are Communist states free to intervene while demo cratic states are powerless to frustrate that intervention...