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...Double, or split personality, such as Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment, "thirsts for power and is powerless, he desires to torture and to be tortured, to debase himself and to debase others, to be proud and to humble himself." Dominance of one trait characterizes the Meek (quixotic Prince Myshkin of The Idiot}, as also the Self-Willed (the murderer Verkhovenski in The Possessed...
...sponsorship of the Dobruja claim. Russia would like to be the Big Brother and Sponsor No. 1 of Bulgaria, and Russia wants all (not just the old Bulgarian part) of the Dobruja for Bulgaria so that the two nations may establish a pan-Slavic frontier. Now that Britain is powerless to stop Hitler in the Balkans, anything that Russia can do to stop him is fine & dandy in London...
...charge, or no one fired it. British troops which had reached Flushing to the southwest and Amsterdam to the north, a French mechanized force which had reached Breda to the southeast, were all too slow, powerless or witless to intervene. Dutch Foreign Minister Elco van Kleffens said German parachutists disguised as Dutch police prevented it. In any case, preceded by one last torrent of air bombs upon Rotterdam, which stubborn Dutch fighters had twice cleared of Nazis, the invaders rolled over the bridge and into the city...
Baptism. "I fear godparents must go; for though they were beautifully conceived, as an institution they are legally and practically powerless, and should not be tempted to make promises which they know they cannot perform...
...religion make a truly practical contribution toward the preservation of democracy against the threat of totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...