Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grasp. He was thinking of architecture not only in terms of this or that building, but of everything within the building- 'every detail of household furnishing, the street as well as the house and the wider world beyond." With an artist's bland disregard for the inertia of others, Le Corbusier drew up a master plan for a "Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants...
Federal farm programs, said the President, are "drifting into a chaotic state, piling up surpluses, penalizing efficiency, rewarding inertia." Very true. But then the President went on to prescribe a big dose of the same kinds of programs: direct and indirect subsidies, plus entangling controls to cope with the surpluses that the subsidies help to create. If carried out, the Kennedy proposals would even extend subsidies and controls to farm products-most fruits, vegetables and livestock-that are now normally outside the farm policy mess...
...city itself has a further rationalization for inertia. Cambridge planners say with a certain amount of truth that they cannot plan re-development in the area to the east of Central Sq. until they know exactly where the proposed Inner Belt highway will go. This is a reasonable enough moratorium, since it involves state as well as local lethargy. However, because of a system of priorities voted in the city council, almost no urban renewal can take place in the whole of Cambridge until the inner belt goes through. Thus, while people in the east of Cambridge neglect their homes...
Leaving the mayor's home, Steve Kennedy called a midnight press conference, declared bitterly that he was quitting because of Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind...
...would remember that some power is best not used at all-especially when the Federal Government is tempted to take on tasks adequately managed by the states and local communities. Another was whether events could really be moved far and fast, as energetic John Kennedy hoped. Faced with bureaucratic inertia, the unalterable decisions of predecessors and the provocation of crisis by men beyond his control, he was learning that a President, in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, barely retains the liberty "to be as big a man as he can." But in the vigor he brought to the early days...