Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whim of Iron. "What Forster wants to know about the human heart must be caught by surprise, by what he calls the 'relaxed will,' and if not everything can be caught in this way, what is so caught cannot be caught in any other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that...
Abbott declares: It must be rigor mortis...
...chill mouth, the lean rigor of his face, the green blaze in his eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
Fort Benning, he emphasized, is intended to give men in three months, the training they need to educate new officers as well as to serve actively themselves. He stated that he was impressed with the quality and thoroughness of the instruction, and with the rigor with which the potential officers were tested by observation and by the opinions of their fellows...
...foreword to the book Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing says he has known Author Reveille ten years, trusts his judgment and scientific rigor of thought, adds that his friend knows ten languages, has long been associated with "leading persons in control of the economic, financial and political life in Europe," but "his official position obliges him to remain anonymous." Most readers will probably deduce Author Reveille as a maverick German economist...