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...element of quest in her sexuality which the female is taught to deny. She is not only taught to deny it in her sexual contacts, but... in all her contacts, from infancy onward, so that when she becomes aware of her sex the pattern has sufficient force of inertia to prevail over new forms of desire and curiosity. This is the condition which is meant by the term "female eunuch...
...compelling document. Though the tragedy of drug escalation has often been described, its lessons bear repetition. The children Smith describes took drugs for a number of inner compulsions, which in themselves, as he points out, needed expert care. But they also gravitated toward disaster out of stupidity, conformity, inertia, the need to run drug risks as a challenge to adults, and the dream that drugs are a short cut to truth and beauty. In their hopes and delusions, they resemble nothing so much as the poor, sad, small boys in Pinocchio who head for the land of free play...
...another set: Alinsky's rules, however unpleasant, are the only rules of the game. His point in making them so uncompromising is that in situations where "what is best for most" is being opposed-by racism, by unresponsive government, by corrupt local administrations, by corporations, or only by the inertia of the present order-there's often no room for compromise: the choice becomes one of either giving up a moral end or embracing an "immoral" means...
...Peter's ideas are tested by experience. In a hilarious initial encounter with retired Kansas schoolteachers on the boat train, Peter learns the depths of his own anti-Americanism. Later a wretched Thanksgiving spent at the home of a U.S. general confronts him with the anguish of American inertia in pursuing un-American aims in Viet Nam. When he retreats to Italy at Christmas to salve his soul among the airy splendors of the Sistine Chapel, his democratic principles are tried again. Everywhere he finds "dark serried groups reminding him of flocks of starlings." "If you love someone," Peter...
Ironically, the commission found itself praising last year's bogeymen. Inertia-encrusted bureaucratic domains such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission were singled out for making some progress in civil rights enforcement. Plans for formal proceedings that may result in a rule against discrimination in employment by the transportation industry are currently being worked on at the CAB and the ICC; the SEC has agreed to require disclosure of pending civil rights actions against a company seeking registration with that agency...