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...double views the battle, in effect, from a position of crucifixion: he is powerless to act, he knows he musn't move, but he also suffers for these soldiers, perhaps glimpsing the inevitable moment when Shingen's death would be known and all hell would break loose...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: By Indirection | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

...while protesting one war and lives today to witness the conception of another, rock and roll waits for World War III supine, recumbent. It's as though, faced with ICBMs and oil embargoes, musicians are starting at their electric guitars and drum kits and shaking their heads, paralyzed and powerless...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Tunes of Glory | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...this book has a disappointing aspect, it is the rather scanty treatment of Martin Buber, the towering religious humanist or humanistic religious. Somewhere in Buber, it would seem, lurks the kernel of the new understanding of self, and the relationship of man to Almighty. We are not powerless, victimized by an existential fate, doomed to fraudulent, terrorized lives. We can (not shall) overcome...

Author: By Ed Cray, | Title: Discovering the Mind | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...people we must reject such obvious ideological attacks for the fallacies which they are. Such attacks are meant to put in place a series of discourses and practices by which and through which the dominant white American bourgeois class can legitimize its own power over the powerless. We must insist that we are not the CAUSE OF nor do we accept the RESPONSIBILITY FOR the poverty of the black underclass. The black underclass is the creation of WHITE CAPITALIST AMERICA. End of dialogue...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: An Ideological Trick-Bag | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

...approved by her male owner. Thus many men take offense to a rape not because the woman is in pain but because his property is damaged goods. His woman is dirty; his ability to protect her has been challenged and found lacking. Furthermore, when a man views women as powerless property, he directly curtails the quality he can achieve in a male-female relationship. Relations between men and women will only be truly successful when the two sexes deal with each other as equal personalities and not as unequal stereotypes...

Author: By Elisabeth Einaudi and Peggy Mason, S | Title: WOMEN: Take Back the Night | 11/6/1980 | See Source »

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