Word: powerlessness
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...itself out of the anti-war movement. The Campus Worker-Student Alliance line-which PL pushed hard and continuously within SDS-sapped the organization of so much energy that it did no work on the issue of the war during the period of the Moratoria. SDS thus rendered itself powerless by the time Cambodia rolled around last May. At a time when tens of thousands of students focused on the war as a major national issue, SDS was engaged in its most intensive period of self-proletarianization...
...shit in study hall (write 2,000 times "I will study in study hall!"), how school meant nothing to her, she wanted out (Oh, so ahead of her time!), she wanted a car, she was mad at the goddamn world for treating her like shit, she was tragically powerless to escape from the bastards who were wringing her through this goddamn machine called school, slop jobs, idiots with pom-poms who wanted her to cheer for the goddamn basketball team when she had to help support her sister and forget that her father was gone, long gone by the time...
...studio must have thought were loose ends of the plot. "Universal treated me like the enemy," says Cornfield. "All they had to do was contact me and tell me they had a problem." They never tried. Cornfield heard about the changes at the last minute, and was contractually powerless to prevent them...
...politics are obvious in the way Seale and Huggins have been treated in jail, in the way that even Mulvey seems powerless to order any real change in their enforced life-style...
...must take exception to Mr. Kriesberg's passing comment that the Committee of Inquiry (sic) is powerless (Feb. 11, "Inside...