Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sake of variety, European-trained Jesus Molina decided on a supine position. With a contractor's thoroughness, Molina consulted with scores of doctors on bone structure and rigor mortis, attended all the town's autopsies. The result, a massive, 6 ft. 2 in. figure of stone, was stark and realistic...
Edward Hopper's Manhattan canvases all looked as if they had been painted on a Sunday morning when few were up yet or else late at night. The few figures he did introduce looked stiff and lonely; they were transients, put there to emphasize the frozen rigor of the streets and buildings Hopper loves. At 66, in his deceptively simple pictures, he has done more than any other painter to define the beauty of Manhattan's steel, brick and brownstone shell...
...Great People." Is that exalted attitude a preface to dictatorial tenden cies? Perhaps; but De Gaulle understands the danger of dictatorship well. He has said: "What is dictatorship? Doubtless its first steps may seem attractive. Amid the enthusiasm of some and the resignation of others, amid the rigor of the order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively...
Fantasy & Insight. Handsome, bush-bearded Scot Macdonald was born in 1824 of a line of Aberdeenshire Calvinists. His father, a hard-tender, humorous man, reared his son with Presbyterian rigor-forbidding him to use a saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future...
...Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis...