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...think of social change in terms of an inert mass of mechanically interrelated parts. We change the part that's not functioning," Slater, a former professor at Harvard and Brandeis and author of "The Pursuit of Loneliness," said...
...good writer. He's also nutty as a fruitcake to me, you see. I shouldn't say that, 'cause in a sense he pays perverse tribute to my writing. He's implying that I'm a good writer but wasting my time with these worthless people, this inert mass of people. Of course, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He's never met 'em. 'Cause I've met 'em. [Laughs] That's pretty exciting, you know. Once you get a person alone, each one is unique. Each one has his own way of speaking, which...
...other modern alloys are being developed, primarily by Japanese surgeons. Dr. Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow and is so effective that one 17-year...
This old and unreliable cliché remains in vogue precisely because it is a comfort to the cynically inert conscience. Why risk a moral stance if evil, greed and calculated self-interest will invariably win out? Win they certainly do in The Visit. Clara Zachanassian (Rachel Roberts), a middle-aging, much-married multimillionairess, has come back to her impoverished home town of Gullen with a rather special proposition. She will bestow half a billion marks on the town and another half a billion to be divided equally among its citizens in return for what might be called Salome...
...genteel and reflective scholar in his sunbathed study does not seem to go with words like hardness, coldness, emptiness of love or barrenness of soul. Gandi perhaps had in his mind a less genteel, and more Imperial prototype. Yet there is a brand of unresponsive Love and of Inert Concern which blesses no more, and damages no less, than straight-forward cynicism. Quiet compassion and relaxed (i.e., controllable) self-accusation are no less evil in their end-results than those more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier, ice-cold corporation-leader. Different...