Word: inertia
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Blue laws* are relics of a time when church and state seemed inextricably intertwined. They survive through the same sort of legislative inertia that preserves the numerous city ordinances against kite flying-a pastime once feared as a sure horse-frightener...
...colorless tasks, from building chicken houses to digging sewers. They have wrestled with tongue-twisting languages. They have gagged on incredible foods containing everything from cat meat to sheep intestines to fish heads. They have cursed the mistakes of their superiors and muttered in fury at the ignorance and inertia among the natives they are trying to help. Six volunteers have died; 248 quit or were fired...
Belaboring a program of music or a musical organization for contributing to cultural inertia is dangerous because so much depends on one's own center of gravity in musical history. If, for examble, one feels most at home anywhere between Palestrina and Mahler, then the programs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra this season were daring--chronologically, at least. They included works of Giannini, Kodaly, Hindemith, Bartok, Martin, and, on Friday's program, Charles Griffes and Alfredo Ginastera. But if one's scope extends to twentieth century musical ideas and materials, beyond mere rehashings of established techniques, then...
...necessary to share Hughes' nostalgia for the days of hope in early 1953 to admire and value his book. His narrative has the fascination of testimony, and his argument is much more than a plea for a sympathetic judgment of Eisenhower (though it is certainly that). The inertia that humbled the architect of D-Day is currently blocking the efforts of his successor on every front, as Hughes ends by noting. He offers the defeat of his Eisenhower as a warning
...President should seek direct public support for his program through a national televised speech and through a series of White House meetings with representatives of business, labor, and professional groups. Such an appeal is the only way to cut through the tangle of selfish opposition and political inertia that each year obstructs the passage of an education bill. If an effective lobby for aid to education does not exist, the President's job must be to create...