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...extreme solution, to let one's inner life give way to silent partnership in other people's fantasies, or, worse, to protect against this kind of dissolution by erecting a rock-like barrier between oneself and the world--a barrier proofed against intrusions from the outside but powerless to subdue inner hurts. It is the various strategies women use to affect a compromise between their inner claims and the pressures of other peoples' fears and expectations which provide the unifying theme of Other People's Lives, Kaplan's first collection of short stories...
...create and run institutions, and not the other way around. Nick wrote leaflets about the miners' working conditions and pay, and passed them out in front of Lehman Hall, trying to get Harvard people to see why they were warm and comfortable, and why other people were poor and powerless...
There have been times in the history of art when progress stopped-a kind of eddy, a period of confusion. Today seems just such a time with the artist, like Matthew Arnold's traveler, "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born...
...many Israelis could argue that the presence of American troops would undermine Israel's sovereignty and reduce it to a client state, always living in fear that the troops would be withdrawn if Washington objected to Jerusalem's policies. Israelis also note that U.S. units would be powerless to prevent terrorist attacks...
...only is there a feeling that blacks are powerless, but there is a general consensus among black administrators that tokenism exists at Harvard--a charge that received some substantiation from an examination of the directory of blacks at Harvard. It contains only 87 names. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone has 800 members...