Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About the best thing that you can say about last night's Harvard-Princeton basketball encounter at the IAB is that it finally ended. In a game which served the same purpose an a sleeping pill, the Tigers scored a 70-55 triumph over an inertia plagued Crimson squad...
...change at the Examiner is shocking to most San Franciscans, since "no change" served as a standard for a generation. Indeed, inertia has been the rule for both of the city's dailies, the Chronicle and the Examiner, since they joined forces in 1964 to cut costs by establishing a joint company, Printco, which handles printing, distribution and advertising for the two newspapers and puts out a combined Sunday edition, the Examiner & Chronicle...
...rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...
...forebears lost. Near the book's end, he tries to rescue a cow that is in danger of drowning in mud. The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence. But he struggles furiously, engaged in the grubbiness of life through an inertia of commitment that is stronger than protective cynicism...
...also, it appears, crucially overloaded, sloppily sailed, sketchily regulated for safety and steadily dangerous. The problem is partly a matter of scale, a dramatic change that-as Lemuel Gulliver learned to his sorrow-can be catastrophic. Especially in congested shipping lanes, the V.L.C.C.s are simply too big and too inertia-bound to operate safely by current rules of navigation. (Among other things, Mostert urges the establishment of onshore control towers like those now handling flight patterns around jet airports...