Word: inertias
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...then learned just how exasperating Harvard could be: "I tried to find the seat of power--formally, informally... I tried very hard." Gavin found nothing but what he saw as inertia and indifference. All the while, he was preparing a list of embarrassing questions to ask the administration: What part had Lowell's widely recognized personal prejudices played in the apparently systematic sabotage of Semitic studies at Harvard during the '20s and '30s? Why was the University no longer picking up the tab for heating and maintenance as Eliot had promised in 1903? How did Bundy almost get away with...
...also said the reopening of the museum to the public was "a miracle worked against the forces of inertia." He added. "I hope we all do our part, which we have not all done in the past" to aid in promoting the public function of the museum...
...industrial world, the idea of excellence acquired in the past 20 years a sinister and even vaguely fascistic reputation. It was the Best and the Brightest, after all, who brought us Viet Nam. For a long time, many of the world's young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much...
...mushiness and slow pace of the State Department have driven many outsiders to distraction. Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. If a cable is of special policy importance, it winds up on the desk of the Secretary of State. He does not know which ideas were eliminated by the clearance process, what modifications occurred on the cable's journey to him, or-unless he has studied the subject himself-what long-range purpose...
...Central Committee's inertia reflected the party's disarray in the face of an ideological power struggle within its dwindling ranks (29% of its members have resigned since August 1980). In recent weeks, a hard-line faction has increasingly attacked party moderates and called for a return to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. Led by figures like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski, this group draws its strength from the bureaucrats whose privileges are threatened by reform...