Word: powerlessness
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...past three years, protest activities from petitions to building take-overs have assumed the authority of the Harvard administration to say yes or no to the proposals. The result has been no real change in Harvard's policy on housing, investments, and discipline because the protests came from a powerless position. Students must be able to place themselves in a bargaining position with Harvard with an organized group holding real power within the University...
...historical irrelevance. Didman's liberal conscience originally made him an outcast among fellow Yale graduates who, in the Silent '50s, sought the maximum security of suburbia while Didman chose a deteriorating New York City, hoping to forward his progressive ideas through publishing. Instead, he finds himself powerless to prevent Government agencies from using his publishing house as a propaganda mill...
...Acting Master of Dunster House and one of the original members of the Committee of Fifteen, it is meant "to take the jargon out of communication." Mr. Rosenblatt has not yet indicated with what the committee plans to replace the jargon. At any rate, this jargonless Committee is also powerless. It is intended only as a clearing house and channeling agency...
...salvation mission been dependent upon Pilate's decision, it is not too likely that Christ would have attained even the notoriety of Superstar. Perhaps what Daniel and Philip Berrigan have said to all is that the genuine role of the prophet lies in his assumption of a powerless position in the face of the world's total rejection...
...between the stepfather and the mother, as the sword between the stepfather's legs is the largest weapon in the drawing." Billy, obviously jealous, drew himself throwing darts at his stepfather. The darts were very small and could do no harm; the boy must therefore have realized how powerless he was. That feeling of impotence, the authors say, may have accounted for Billy's "bad" behavior at home and at school...