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...very few votes, Dworshak effectively halted renaming the Clearwater for a man who made a tremendous contribution to the cause of conservation. Lucius Beebe, in his paper, The Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise, called Dworshak "an illiterate clod" for his actions. But, despite this type of reaction, conservative inertia and political expediency will probably triumph. Idahoans will continue to revel in the historical and aesthetic significance of the name "Clearwater...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont.) said tonight that the Eisenhower administration is following a disastrous "formula for inertia" in relying almost wholly on the United relying almost wholly on the United Nations to solve the Middle East crisis...
...awake. Ethan Fromm has smashed, dulled, and lulled hundreds of thousands of schoolboy sensibilities for forty years. But for Trilling the book in all its badness, still has something to say about life, for it is the very badness, the lack of sensibility, what he calls "the morality of inertia" which characterizes not only that period, but the majority of people in every period...
President Eisenhower's declaration does typify the Administration's policy of inertia in foreign affairs, which has prevailed too long. The President's faith in the U.N. is to be applauded, but his failure to adopt a progressive approach toward making it a more effective body is lamentable...
Skinner maintains "There is a simple job to be done.... The necessary techniques are known. The equipment needed can easily be provided. Nothing stands in the way but cultural inertia. But what is more characteristic of America than an unwillingness to accept the traditional as inevitable? We are on the threshold of an exciting and revolutionary period, in which the scientific study of man will be put to work in man's best interests. Education must play its part. It must accept the fact that a sweeping revision of educational practice is possible and inevitable. When it has done this...