Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abraham's Bosom concerns a Negro who tried to raise up the Carolina blacks through education. Blundering, fanatically inspired, he plods to frustration, overcome by white prejudice, black inertia, his own blunted intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright...
...purpose of forming a definite conclusion as to the strength of this interest that the meeting today has been called. Under these circumstances it would indeed be unfortunate if the attractive plan which the Administration has to offer is allowed to slip into the discard merely because of the inertia of that part of the student body which has at present no opportunity for taking their meals quietly and in the congenial company of interesting friends...
...late J. P. Morgan could find no Judge Gary for the shipping trust he planned in 1902, although he did get the ablest shipping executive on the Atlantic seaboard, Philip Albright Small Franklin, for president. Mr. Franklin has had many things to fight-foreign competition, inertia of U. S. shippers, a heavy $36,000,000 bonded indebtedness, most of all legislative handicaps. No other government regulates wages, conditions of work and contracts of its seamen as does the U. S., and to that extent at least foreign shipping concerns have had an advantage over U. S. competitors. Morgan...
...possibly succeed in a Broadway house. It tells of the dry rot creeping upon a class of Russian society which, for years, has been privileged to do nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there is life. They will go. But they never do. They just relapse into the tragic, supine, half-dead repose fastened upon them by their traditional weakness. Meanwhile peasant bipod, reddened by centuries of labor, filters in with the drops...
...believe it to be true. Yet public opinion, when you try to define it, proves to be a very elusive thing. What passes on public opinion, in perhaps the majority of cases, is simply the outcome of propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions or inertia of the people. The rst. inclination of most men and women is to connect every new problem with something already silhouetted in their imaginations some principle that has already found lodgment there. Very few of us approach any new public question with open minds; or rather, we do it with...