Word: powerlessness
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...meeting with you today, I reread a story I wrote for Science in 1967 based on telephone interviews with everybody who had been on Scientists and Engineers for Johnson. The range of disaffection then was certainly very great, but the article ended up by commenting on the feeling of powerlessness of all the people who had been on that committee, and I remembered wondering to myself, if those people felt powerless, who was feeling powerful at that time? Who was feeling in control...
Harvard students are now powerless to effect real policy change. Most are infused with a sense of meaninglessness, with a sense that whatever we're doing helps no one, including ourselves, and that each person is more interested in the preservation of his or her ego than in his or her contribution to the community. This is not an indictment of Harvard students per se; it is a sketch of the spirit of American society today, a spirit resulting from the deliberate, persistent attempt to preserve the economic, social and political status quo at all costs...
Although a President is relatively powerless to reduce crime, Nixon had campaigned hard...
...happened, the devaluation coincided with another lesson in realism and a demonstration of scaled-down American influence overseas: the end of the two-week war between India and Pakistan (see THE WORLD). The conflict, which the U.S. had been powerless to stop or seriously affect, cast a shadow over Richard Nixon's subtropical round of summitry...
...Bengal, where naval skirmishes occurred, and to the outskirts of major cities in both countries as planes bombed and strafed airfields. Having teetered on the edge of all-out war for many weeks, India and Pakistan had finally plunged over, and the rest of the world was powerless to do anything but watch in horror...