Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, and particularly those of Asia," he said, "are upon us looking for assurance that we, as the most powerful country in the world, are really at the forefront of democracy, as we claim: assurance that--the Atlantic Charter applies to the Pacific." As a consequence, however, of our inertia, Sheeks claimed "we are slowly forcing upon them the conviction that militarization is the only...
Says Szigeti: "The mental inertia of the music-listening public is something so terrifying it is better not to think of it. Our sluggish mental habits make so much great music seem esoteric. We shut out our participation because we are afraid. Bartók is one of the imperishable creative artists. His position is less likely to be corroded by the years than that of Sibelius or Strauss or Prokofiev...
Said Critic Brebner: Canadians leave home because salaries are higher in the U.S., because "the canny, cautious conservatism which has so often characterized Canadians, rich and poor alike, [makes life in Canada] discouraging." Young people especially seemed to find that "the inertia of their entrenched elders had drained Canadian life of color, zest, adventure, and the stimulation which comes from free-ranging experimentation in ideas...
...gained by speaking as if it were." Compensating Pole. The other "tenable position," says Author Orton, is conserva tism. In it he sees the compensating pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that out of the struggles of Whig and Tory two strong...
...this argument the four books listed above are a current contribution. Each of them reveals something about Russia-the force which Henry Adams, one of the shrewdest of U.S. historians and political observers, once saw in the chilling terms of creeping "ice-cap" and "inertia." Part of mankind has long regarded this force as a prime political danger. Part of mankind has long regarded it as its great political hope. Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate...