Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this comes as news, it also says something about Jimmy Carter. At the close of a little-remarked-upon television interview last November, he told Public Broadcasting's Bill Moyers that his two most "unpleasant surprises" in office had been the inertia of Congress and the irresponsibility of the press...
...playing midwife to a Faculty that thrashed and groaned like an elephant for three years before giving birth to a mouse called the Core Curriculum, are proof enough of that. Harvard, so they tell us, will last forever, and it will not change--or change easily--because the institutional inertia of 340-plus years of imagined immortality will not permit that. And so the students who cry out to change Harvard actually find themselves faced with a much more difficult problem: making sure that Harvard does not change them. The trick becomes one of accepting the education the institution offers...
...yeasty comic genius of the play rests with a totally reluctant fourth suitor, a court councilor named Podkoliosin (Peter Michael Goetz). Russian inertia runs like psychic sludge through Podkoliosin's veins. He is a precursor of Goncharov's famed character Oblomov, who could barely make the effort to get out of bed. When it comes to marriage, Podkoliosin can scarcely contemplate getting into bed. But he is sponsored and goaded by his friend Kochkariev (Alvin Epstein), a born busybody. Epstein, in his first season as artistic director of the Guthrie, animatedly embodies the temperament...
Whereas there must be administrative resistance to reversals of decisions in response to student pressure, the University must respond when the students have made the most important argument. The inertia of petty-bureaucrats cannot be allowed to subsume the best interests of the community. Harvard must change to grow, or else its "Living Memorials" will become mausoleums of poor judgement. Stanley W. Burrows...
...walk describes a long circle and Cheever's house comes into view again. It seems a natural outcropping of the hill on which it was built 179 years ago. In his stories, Cheever has satirized the obsession to collect and preserve old things. "It represents inertia, lack of enthusiasm, everything I detest in life." Then the curator of his own stories laughs outright: "However, if you want to see my grandmother...