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...Crimson continues to play with the poise and aggressiveness they demonstrated on Saturday, it seems certain that the Bruins will he powerless less to force them out of their winning ways...
Self disapproves of his life, but as long as the cash rolls in he is powerless to change. Moreover, his swilling and wenching take place in societies where shame is archaic and judgmental a dirty word. Overdue for his flight, Fielding Goodney simply delays the plane with a phony bomb scare: "I always do it when I'm running late. They grill the latecomers but not if you're first-class. It's not economical." A Los Angeles housewife interrupts Self and a prostitute in a parked car with "Hurry it up, pal. You're in my drive...
Morgan herself is on the radical left of the American feminist movement. She tells us in her introduction that her goal is "not only to change drastically our own powerless status worldwide, but redefine all existing social structures. Her sentiment, echoed over and over is perhaps best expressed by Mola Ogundipe-Leslie, a professor of English at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria: "It would seem that I am arguing that men are the enemy. No, men are not the enemy. The enemy is the total societal system, which is a jumble of neocolonial and feudalistic, even slave-holding, structures...
...unguided White House tour. Although he admits it was "a mistake," he notes that "it was the high point of being in Washington." If convicted of unlawful entry, Latta could be sentenced to six months in jail. But because the charge is only a misdemeanor, Washington prosecutors would be powerless to extradite him from Colorado if he did not return voluntarily...
...seems "a growing consensus," said Pynchon, "that knowledge really is power." Clearly, this is not the brash self-assurance Arnold deplored, but rather something far more deliberate and open-minded. In Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, Arnold complained that he was "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born." Today there is plenty of evidence that a new world of knowledge is not only capable of being born, but that in such a world cancer will be defeated, Jupiter visited, and quadriplegics will dance...