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...occupied the Administration Building for nearly two weeks over an issue of faculty hiring. When asked to compare her projected handling of a similar situation to President Bok's sittight strategy for dealing with the Mass Hall occupation this Spring. Gail Parker said, "I think there's enough institutional inertia here that Bok's methods work. But I don't think putting things off works in a small community...
...Sorrow's artistic and intellectual triumph now than might have been the case a decade ago. We have lately lived through a period when the question of individual moral choice became a national anguish. Here, as in Occupied France, those who were comfortably fixed often took refuge in inertia and the hope that the whole thing would somehow go away. In 1972 Americans may find haunting the ravaged face and words of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, a black-sheep aristocrat who helped found the liberation movement. "I think," he admits at one point, "that you joined...
...Simple inertia is another problem, and not only on small papers in the hinterland. The New York Daily News, with the largest seven-day circulation in the country, still offers generally unimaginative fare, as does the New York Post. The Philadelphia Bulletin has not exactly lost its breath chasing changing times either. Marjorie Paxson, the Bulletin's women's editor, defends her paper's approach: "I think people here are very interested in society. Not all of the city is ghettos by any means. It is up to me to strike a balance." When the paper...
...game did not begin as frantically as it ended. Harvard had looked sick in the opening period, tied up by slow ice, Brown's characteristic tight checking, and their own inertia. Neither team managed decent shot for the first ten minutes, until the Bruins woke up the fans with a flurry at the half-way point...
...choose our idols, or we can step out of the web. We can create more mythology, or we can steal more truth. Resistance is no more than a daily responsibility, no more than the effort to make community life one's own. Blocking our resistance is the inertia of an alienating past and a society predicated on our submission to impersonal, frequently inhuman, authority. We have left Bobby and Eugene behind us; when we turn to each other is yet to be seen