Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world in which some large-scale exhibition gets arranged, not according to school, cult, period, or what-have-you, but along lines of that universal artistic ideal which Malraux termed "the museum without walls." The old categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...
...Stanislaus lived to complete his memoir, Editor Richard Ellmann is certain that he would have pressed the claim that he saved his brother from the triple threat of dissipation, dubious friends and inertia. Joyce never admitted the need to be saved from anything, but Jung himself is reported to have said after reading Ulysses that Joyce would have gone mad had he not written the book...
...University's Houston H. Merritt and James F. Hammill-though they confirmed the findings of Ike's regular doctors. As for treatment, all they could advise was wait and see, combined with a stress-free routine. They prescribed plenty of rest for Ike, but not the total inertia that was, until recently, standard for victims of strokes, however mild. The only medication that the President got, even in the first stages of his illness, was a mild sedative. Beyond that, he is expected to stay on anticoagulants. In the case of a mild stroke such...
...instead to the G.O.P. state and national committees. Unable to afford TV saturation of New York's 2,400,000 voters, Christenberry has contented himself with strained sidewalk handshakes and alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation and intrepid inertia.") He has failed to make an issue out of crime, juvenile delinquency, or any other of the problems that vex New Yorkers: e.g., corruption charges against two Democratic city councilmen, city-choking traffic snarls, worsening public schools and the flight of the Giants and Dodgers to California's greener...
...French army, inertia, poor pay, bad quarters and a casual official unconcern for the soldiers' dependents back home sap morale. Most of the generals, according to Servan-Schreiber, are ribbon-happy pols who insist on military operations in keeping with their inflated status even when their sectors contain no one in particular to shoot-except innocents...