Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting called Shaplin a "big bum," and has persistently complained that the Dean has "impugned all our motives." On another occasion, Fitzgerald had CRIMSON photographers ejected from a committee meeting. He insists that, examinations or not, Cambridge residents should be given preference for teaching positions. With just as much rigor, he opposes the merit system, claiming that it is the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the people of Cambridge...
...Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than alive...
...method for determining almost exactly the minute of death has been developed by Drs. Herbert P. Lyle and Frank P. Cleveland of the Hamilton County, Ohio coroner's office. Old methods relied on stage of rigor mortis, state of putrefaction, and rectal temperature changes in the corpse. The Cincinnati doctors told the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists last week that a thin thermometer inserted into the brain will produce a series of constant readings for 24 hours following death, since heat loss in brain tissue occurs according to a predictable formula...
...public: "... Yielding to the suggestion of momentary passion, Mr. Quincy has formed a determination which no prudent man can approve, and which he pursues with an obstinacy which regards neither the dictates of reason nor of common sense. He is about to introduce into academical discipline the full rigor of criminal...
Does debate weaken democracy? On the contrary, argues Author Labin, the rigor of the dogmatic one-opinion police state leads only to rigor mortis: "To believe that music must bring forth Leninistic harmonies, that physics must be de-Semiticized . . . non-Aryans sterilized, the kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action...