Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe undergraduates will have pre-marital affairs whether the Administration approves or not. Some of these affairs will be happy, others will not; many of these undergraduates will learn to relax with sex, while others will allow sex to master them, for a time or forever. The Administration is powerless to control these things. But what it can do, and finally what it will be bound to do, is to create an atmosphere in which the new morality can work itself out sensibly, where men and women can relax with each other and with sex, without feeling triumphant or guilty...
...constituted Latin American government fell by the wayside, toppled by military revolt. The victim this time was the small Central American republic of Honduras. It was the second such coup in eight days, the fourth this year, the seventh since President Kennedy took office.* Throughout, the U.S. has seemed powerless either to prevent the coups or even decide on a consistent approach...
...energetic as he is, Hoadley would be powerless without the state law on which he is basing his prosecution. Although it has never been tested, the twelve-year old Anti-Subversion Act is probably unconstitutional. In 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Pennsylvania V. Nelson that the Federal government pre-empts prosecution of subversion, forbidding action by state authorities. But the Indiana act makes it "the public policy of the state of Indiana ... to exterminate Communism and communists, and any or all teachings of the same...
...Russin's criticisms are well put. But he has committed at least two sins of omission. The first: James Baldwin has said that the Negro will have the white man. One reason is that we still believe in man. Therefore, we men, powerless as we are supposed to be, still believe that it is good, just and important to stand up for what we believe. Sometimes, just to stand, glad that we have freed ourselves so that we can stand, and march. For it is fundamentally a matter of our humanity. The March on Washington gives us a chance...
...Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice in the House of Commons. Thus he can hardly be expected to stress the central irony of Sevan's life: that a man cannot make himself, as Bevan did, an effective tribune of the poor, the obscure and the powerless without himself becoming prosperous, famous and something of a power in the land. Foot insists that Bevan sought to "rise with his class and not out of it," but Foot's facts vote...