Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illness, or age, or simple inertia may leave him unqualified for his job, but the judge who deals daily with the lives, liberty and property of people forced to come before him may have been appointed for life. If so, he can be fired only for gross misconduct. If he has been elected, it usually takes some sort of major scandal to unseat him. Is there no other way by which the honest but unfit judge can be removed from the bench when necessary...
...while we were little more than undeveloped oogoniums rattling around some place, organic chemistry was indeed a most crucial subject for premeds. It reflected to a great extent the material that had to be mastered in medical schools. But since then, medical school curriculum has undergone fundamental transformations. Inertia is itself a fundamental element of any change, however, and it seems to have sustained over the years an overblown emphasis on organic chemistry, especially among undergraduates...
Thomas, a native Mississippian and graduate of the Ole Miss law school, went on to criticize Mississippi's own courts for archaic customs and "adherence, by acquiescence, inertia or other wise, to the 'sporting theory of justice,' which makes justice a game instead of a quest for truth." He even urged the state to emulate federal courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included...
...Creative Inertia. Actually the least happy part of his speech concerned the world. Almost his only concrete suggestion in foreign affairs was that Russia's rulers visit the U.S. and, by implication, that Lyndon visit Russia-hints that so far have apparently not been taken up by the Kremlin. He tried to play on the divisions between Russia and China, claimed that for the last four years "no new nation" had gone Communist (technically correct, but hardly meaningful), and gave a low-keyed assurance about the U.S.'s staying on in Viet...
...alone to settle all the conflicts of a torn and troubled world." At times Johnson struck a nice balance between selfless service and enlightened self-interest in U.S. dealings with the world, but in sum, as Paris' Le Monde put it, on foreign affairs, he suffered from "creative inertia...