Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy, what they fault is not the totalitarian system, but the old, open-collared party hacks who resist change. Says Kurt Leopold, West Germany's former chief trade negotiator with East Germany: "The younger generation is conspicuously pressing for reform. The older party officials hate them but are powerless to stop the trend...
...House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign aid. Passman found himself powerless. Where, in his heyday, subcommittee hearings had dragged on for months, this year's sessions were rushed through in eleven weeks by the new membership. Under Mahon's orders, Chairman Passman was not even allowed to issue a report. Objected Otto: "You can't take the right...
Another attitude that can stifle the creative process is the philosophy of the "beat" generation that "the individual is powerless in the hands of great and stifling forces," Thimann said. Pointing out that these forces are often no more than dishonest politicians, he noted that "the answer to crooked politicians is 'creative and effective women...
...wrote to Secretary of the Interior Udall asking that Memorial Drive be declared an historical site. Udall said he was powerless to do this but congratulated Bernays for his efforts...
...policy problem. These quarrels sadly refute the Gandhian view that Asian spiritualism is superior to the rationalism of the West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise." Spirituality has proved powerless to return rioting mobs to their prayers, while Western rationalism in Asia has been equally unable to mute the "din and noise" of communal clashes...