Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belaboring a program of music or a musical organization for contributing to cultural inertia is dangerous because so much depends on one's own center of gravity in musical history. If, for examble, one feels most at home anywhere between Palestrina and Mahler, then the programs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra this season were daring--chronologically, at least. They included works of Giannini, Kodaly, Hindemith, Bartok, Martin, and, on Friday's program, Charles Griffes and Alfredo Ginastera. But if one's scope extends to twentieth century musical ideas and materials, beyond mere rehashings of established techniques, then...
...necessary to share Hughes' nostalgia for the days of hope in early 1953 to admire and value his book. His narrative has the fascination of testimony, and his argument is much more than a plea for a sympathetic judgment of Eisenhower (though it is certainly that). The inertia that humbled the architect of D-Day is currently blocking the efforts of his successor on every front, as Hughes ends by noting. He offers the defeat of his Eisenhower as a warning
...President should seek direct public support for his program through a national televised speech and through a series of White House meetings with representatives of business, labor, and professional groups. Such an appeal is the only way to cut through the tangle of selfish opposition and political inertia that each year obstructs the passage of an education bill. If an effective lobby for aid to education does not exist, the President's job must be to create...
...College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law, however, have discovered just how stubborn Mississippi inertia can be. It was towards the faculty in these two schools that the attacks of 1959 were directed, and it has been the professors of these schools who first began to "pick up the pieces" after the riots and educate the student body to the could facts of desegregation and the judicial process in America...
...supported this brand of separatism because of what he called "failures" of current integration movements. These touch "only twenty per cent" of the Negro community, and the apparent progress represented by, for example, desegregation in public buildings does nothing to change the American's basic attitude toward integration. "Individual inertia remains," Butler said, "in spite of acceptance of the hypothesis and legality of integration...