Word: powerlessness
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...Christ." Moltmann believes that the church, caught in the ambiguities of the present, must grasp both the past and the future. Without this balance, he warns, the maintenance of church institutions can become all-important, and belief in Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection could "decay into a powerless historical recollection...
...called history. Morante prefaces her chapters (each of which deals with the occurrences of a single year) with lists of events that come close enough to scorch the Roman populace: treaties made and broken, victories, slaughters, final solutions, barbarities parading as statecraft. This constant juxtaposition of power and the powerless begins as an easy irony but slowly swells toward a cosmic pathos. While Mussolini strutted like a deranged buffoon, "Rome took on the appearance of certain Indian metropolises where only the vultures get enough to eat and there is no census of the living and the dead...
...humiliating defeat of Indira Gandhi and her colleagues is, and must be, a lesson for the arrogant and indifferent elite of India-government officials and intellectuals who control and dominate the poor and the powerless...
...people live in squalor while they unknowingly take hallucinogens that make them believe they live in the best-of-all-possible-worlds people once believed science would someday provide. The Cyberiad, a collection of short stories, likewise offers tales of how science, once thought so omnipotent, gets caught embarassingly powerless, like a movie star crapping in the woods. The book is full of inventors' plans backfiring and most of the stories are limited enough for the jokes to be funny...
...other colleges. She forces you to confront the fact that you came to Cambridge because of Harvard's great tradition of learning, but that, at the same time, that very traditional outlook has kept Harvard from responding to women's educational needs, with Radcliffe's administration just about powerless to fight for its students. Her statistics are not quite up to date--her research apparently ended in 1975, and there have been significant changes in some areas, notably student life, since then--but the overall patterns of discrimination by omission if not intention are changing very, very slowly...