Word: powerlessness
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...great Mahler conductors are either dead, such as Mengelberg, Furtwangler, and Walter, or, like Klemperer and Horenstein, extremely old. Since we live in a cultural ochlocracy, political beatitude aside, it is little wonder that this great nation should recognize Mahler's genius fifty years after that any, powerless ornament of the earth, Holland, Characteristically, the eruption of recent apologies have stressed him as a Bold Innovator or as a distraught mid-century man who is, like all of us course, pre-phoenix in spirit. Such descriptions might deeply engage the imagination of the creators on Easy Rider...
More seriously, the novel documents the assimilation of whole radical movements into impotent forms of institutionalized dissent. The various peace and ban-the bomb movements become so large they are powerless. In the midst of self-satisfied, ineffectual dissenters, one baffled American...
...Black as me," and "Why don't you come into the gate and get your trashy sister off South Campus." Obviously tempers snapped. As the poor whites rushed towards the gates, they were dismissed summarily by both the Black students' security force and the College Security, which was powerless to remove the BPRSC but which did prevent some white students from getting hurt...
...waiting) is a popular posture. It is a detached resignation at least partly rooted in the belief that the nation's destiny is controlled by outside forces-the French after World War II, the Americans and the North Vietnamese in the present conflict-and that the individual is powerless to bring about change. It also reflects despair over the lack of alternatives and deep disenchantment with both the Saigon government and the Communists...
...belong," he says. "If a guy on the street is being brutalized by a police officer, that should be my concern. It's the whole goddamned thing of 'don't get involved.' " By getting involved, Ditto is molding powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...