Word: inertia
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...brighten the situation by pointing out that almost any ambitions man is, in a sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
...Author. Mazo de la Roche, whose face and name are reminiscent of French forbears, was born in Toronto, educated thoroughly and spasmodically. She went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition...
...Williams very obviously attempts to cope with these difficulties. It solves the question of representation to some extent by granting a representative to each fraternity, and by making class officers ex officio members. But this makes for a body too large and unwieldy to be effective,--witness the dismal inertia of the portentous Harvard Student Council before the reform...
This particular proposal is a modest one but it will serve very well as an entering wedge into the citadel of precedent and inertia. As the Lantern says, "If the legislature does create a state board of entrance this session it will be showing the way to other states. The thing is bound to come and it is only a question of which state will be the first...
...Abraham's Bosom concerns a Negro who tried to raise up the Carolina blacks through education. Blundering, fanatically inspired, he plods to frustration, overcome by white prejudice, black inertia, his own blunted intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright...