Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Success, however, may bring self-satisfaction. The spirit of venture is lost in the inertia of the mind against change...
...dilatory 91st Congress stands a good chance of surpassing Harry Truman's "do nothing" 80th as a model of legislative nonactivity. Faced with the possibility of several nation-crippling strikes, however, both House and Senate last week proved that they could overcome inertia and act with dispatch. While an illegal strike by "sick" air controllers entered its third week and wildcatting Teamsters threatened chaos on the highways, Congress moved quickly to head off further trouble with the railroad and postal unions...
...slowest) engine of social change. Even if programs come out of a vacuum, they still require public cooperation to make an impact. A broader perspective on power would include society-how societal constraint and coercion generate power. The mass of the public may prove resistant to change, but that inertia is the critical variable. The public provides the climate, if not the specific cues, in which the government sets policy. That climate determines how well the ministry party pulls together on crucial issues. Crossman's focus would distort the decision-making process: consensus is needed in the party, coercion...
...inefficiencies that will be hardest to surmount are those that do nobody any good. Making sense out of the jumble of local governments will require a decades-long struggle against that most powerful of vested interests, inertia. Correcting the inefficiencies of workers in the service trades?repairmen, waiters, barbers and laundry employees?may be more difficult yet; it will take nothing less than a cultural change. Such jobs need not be regarded as menial; the person performing a service is exercising power, doing something for the customer that he cannot do for himself. But the U.S. has long been moving...
...being killed, yet nonetheless has decided to fight. When Katriel disappears, the role of survivor-witness again falls upon David-but this time with a considerable difference. Earlier, Katriel had been asked, "What do you expect of life?" and had replied, "Life itself." Through some blessing, it is inertia of life, not of death, that now preoccupies David. He still ponders the morbid though moral question of how one can "work for the living without by that very act betraying those who are absent." But instead of being drawn toward the 6,000,000 dead, David subsumes the missing Katriel...