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This Actors,Studio production attains a sense of loneliness, emptiness, inertia, and the parched, anguishing inability to enjoy life but only from moment to moment rather than continuously. Chekhov is the drama's Chopin, fragile, lyrical, nocturnal, romantic, ineffably sad. This mood music hovers in the air of this Broadway revival, but it does not permeate the play...
...take any responsibility for desegregating its schools, and made its decision stick in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court a fortnight ago turned down a chacne to hear the case. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are bogged down for reasons that range from white backlash to a school-board inertia. New York City's Board of Education hesitantly advanced and then igmoniniously cut back a proposal for big-scale pairing of mostly white and mostly Negro schools, which implied bussing many children back and forth...
...source of resistance came from below, in the united hostility of poor youngsters toward the alien intellectualism of mathematics; another kind, the inertia of the school system, sets a ceiling to a teacher's effectiveness from above. On one hand Lowe lamented the unresponsiveness of ninth graders still bafflled by fractions, while on the other he complained about outmoded books and instruction techniques...
...about a dozen bathrooms were made and installed (Fuller's close friend, Author Christopher Morley, bought two), but Phelps Dodge never bore down very hard on getting them into production-perhaps because of nervousness about the plumbers' union. Bucky's diagnosis: "It was only the general inertia of the building world...
Planned withdrawals could save the United States from stranding itself in the South Vietnamese swamps because of policy inertia. When the approved American line was to support Diem regardless of his liabilities because Washington was concerned with defeating the Vietcong, this support was justified by two main points in favor of Diem: (1) Any attempt to overthrow him would disrupt the war effort and (2) no suitable substitutes existed...