Word: inertias
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...Knapps of Falling in Place are typical. Marriage for Louise and John survives by inertia. A divorce requires action and that is precisely what they are unwilling to take, or incapable of taking. Instead they have a vague arrangement: John comes home to Connecticut on weekends for picnics and such with Louise and their children, Mary, 15, and John Joel, 10. During the week Knapp commutes from his Manhattan office to his mother's house in suburban Westchester County. He usually arrives late because he spends the evenings with his mistress Nina in the city. At home, his children...
...effort must be made at all levels of the educational bureaucracy, from tenure appointments to the hiring and training of section leaders. Bok's appeal is welcomed, for improvements can be made; but to achieve them, students must change roles from spectators to actors in order to overcome the inertia of a self-satisfied institution...
...uneven. His stacks of felt rectangles, topped with copper or iron plates, have the dumb, disengaged look common to most minimal art. It does not help much to learn that the slabs of felt are meant to resemble the plates in a wet-cell battery; no current runs, and inertia is inertia. His most extravagant object-20 tons of mutton fat cast into the form of a corner of a pedestrian underpass leading to Münster University, and now solemnly displayed in six pale hunks on the floor of the Guggenheim-was meant as a critique of heartless urban...
...this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember, as it found it difficult to grasp." The resolution and convention were supposed to overcome this awe-inspired inertia by giving all nations "the legal right to intervene in any country where genocide is committed...
...leaders through channels that directly linked the White House Situation Room to the field without going through the State Department-the so-called back channels. Nixon moved sensitive negotiations into the White House where he could supervise them directly, get the credit personally, and avoid the bureaucratic dispute or inertia that he found so distasteful. In May 1971, the Secretary of State did not know of the negotiations in White House-Kremlin channels that led to the breakthrough in the SALT talks until 72 hours before a formal announcement. In July 1971, Rogers was told of my secret trip...