Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes Saturday, Lonoff encountered the quirks of aged Widener Library in person, as she remained trapped in a powerless east side elevator waiting for library staff and Cambridge Fire officials to rescue...
...pushers. Since 1986, Washington police have arrested almost 40,000 suspects in drug cases, but the District has long since run out of courtrooms to try them and prison cells in which to incarcerate them. Police Chief Maurice Turner said on TV last week that the cops were virtually powerless to stop warfare between rival drug dealers. Whether a cessation of hostilities will result from Bennett's shock treatment for the nation's capital remains very much to be seen...
Havel holds numerous awards and honors for his plays, which include The Garden Party and Largo Desolato; essays The Power of the Powerless; and Letters to Olga, a collection of missives that he wrote to his wife while in prison. Havel's work reflects the struggle of citizens in a totalitarian state. Although he is both produced and published abroad, his work has been banned in Czechoslovakia since 1969 and must circulate underground...
...children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...
...Administration's success, as the candidate of grievance -- of affronts localized in a liberalism that is soft on crime and defense, exotic as a Harvard boutique yet stealthy enough to win an election by misrepresenting itself to the American people. Populism is supposed to be an < appeal to the powerless. The populism of power is a contradiction in terms. But Ailes and Lee Atwater and James Baker made it a successful contraption for garnering votes...