Word: inertias
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...meaning of someone like Aaliyah’s early demise. On the surface, there is palpable horror and profound sadness at any death of a young person with so much potential. Sometimes, though, if we are honest with ourselves, we may have the fortitude to resist the seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless “To an Athlete Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore...
...queer studies—I don’t think that such ambivalence is necessarily a problem. It is good for academics to struggle with such impossible demands: it makes them smarter. What is a problem, I’d suggest, is the synergy between academic ambivalence and institutional inertia. As in other large bureaucratic institutions, the rate of change in the university tends to be very slow. This is particularly true when what is at issue are the deep, organizing structures that make up an institution, and in the university, those structures are called the disciplines...
...DRUNK KIDS, INERTIA...
...turf, released The Little Mermaid in 1989. The previous year had seen Oliver and Company look essentially like every Disney animated movie before it. But The Little Mermaid was different. Its colors were brighter, its characters more clearly defined, its music simply better. Disney had broken its inertia in the world of animation technology and (after briefly dipping back into uninspired territory with The Rescuers Down Under) proved it by following The Little Mermaid with a trio of features which dazzled audiences by combining traditional hand-drawn animation with computer graphics. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King...
When they came to see Of A Revolution (OAR) last Wednesday night at the Roxy, they came to abandon something. For one evening, they came to let go of the details of their lives, the clutter of things and people that bind them to place and to the inertia of their day-to-day existence. They threw themselves into the rhythm and followed it wherever it took them. And for a few brief moments, they actually believed they were lost, that there was nowhere and nothing but the music rising in them...