Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Saturday's New York Times, for example, a cursory inspection of the news section revealed several stories bearing menacing portents, directly or otherwise. These items were only connected loosely, in that they add up to one inescapable, and hardly novel, conclusion: America bloats with inertia, and as the torpor grows, rational actions dwindle. Although Fridays in July are supposed to be slow news days, a speculative reader could not help but feel bewildered after reading these seemingly disparate stories...
...signs of change, and the feminist movement has by and large collapsed into a rather bizarre disarray. Yet 100,000 people marched in Washington to show their support for women's rights, and millions more must surely realize the sensibility of sexual equality. Here is a clear case of inertia holding the upper hand...
...obvious danger as the icy gauntlet of mountains seems to close in around us. "You want to be lined up right," Hurd explains with a smile, "or you get all bent out of shape." Translation: if the helmsman is not careful, the tanker's enormous weight and inertia will make it keep on turning long after it should have straightened out on a new course...
John O. McGinnis '78 recalled the comment of one Faculty member who recently said the Faculty is not really interested in education, and that the Core would therefore pass just by inertia...
Their experience should be a lesson to us. The main obstacle they face is not a stubborn administration, but the inertia of a fossilized student government very similar to what the Constitutional Convention has proposed for Harvard-Radcliffe. Supporters of the Constitution say there is no "viable alternative," that our choice is their student government or back to the caves. "All or nothing, and we can change it next year." But when we're stuck with a constitution we spend all our energies amending, an Assembly that floats along on rhetoric, endless resolutions and ad hoc committees that skitter over...