Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Organization Man, wrote William H. Whyte in the final paragraph of his 1956 classic, must fight The Organisation William Whyte, meet fletcher Byrom. A feisty fellow, Byrom lives by the philosophy that the highest form of loyalty is to battle organizational rigidities and inertia...
...Rhode Island called on his Senate colleagues to vote down any further appropriations for the project. Said he: "That Mussolini-style building is an outrage." The Senate defeated his proposal by a vote of 49 to 25. Aside from the attractions of extravagance and the power of bureaucratic inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build up its own staff in order to keep...
Perhaps Andrew Multer enjoys wallowing in his mudhole of American inertia, but I do not. I see "the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity, and rampant escapism," and I see that pessimism has become fashionable, but I do not reach "the inescapable conclusion" that "this country is dying...
...others. And while there is no common source of all these tragedies, they all exemplify the daily tragedy that has become America. It is a system beyond anyone's control, slowly consuming itself like a cooling star. It will continue, of course--nothing can overwhelm the combined forces of inertia and entrenchment, at least not now--and improvement seems hardly likely...
THERE ARE any number of reasons for the inertia that has seized America. There is, of course, the old "Nixon and Vietnam and inflation sapped the vitality of the '60s" line--but comparisons of the '70s to the '60s are hackneyed and generally odious. The '60s, if nothing else, were a dynamic, essential turning point, of which the '70s are the antithesis. Then there is the "lobotomization of America" argument, which points to television and pre-professionalism and People Magazine as the leading indicators of plasticity, stupidity and rampant escapism. Armchair (and journalistic) philosophers can rant forever, yet still achieve...