Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories, in the best of them. When he was there--in Death in the Afternoon, The Green Hills of Africa, that thing in Life last year--than the fine detachment of his art was not. We can sympathize with the pains that his art required, the monumental, self-imposed rigor of a spare and honest new way of seeing. But we can also be disappointed when he himself forgot...
...Intuition, divination, instinct, were as good for them as 'proofs' today," according to Courant. Only after the revolution did mathematicians inject rigor into their textbooks to guide the large numbers of people suddenly confronted with the chance to educate themselves...
...problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
...since they are the products of the act of reproduction). Some of them carried their asceticism as far as the endura-suicide by self-starvation. Most of the Cathari, however, remained among the "believers," free to live ordinary lives in the world in the hope of salvation without the rigor of living as a "perfect...
...only on professional educators but also on the country's best brains-including that most caustic critic of U.S. schools, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Said dispassionate Philosopher McMurrin: "I think Admiral Rickover's impact on American education has been essentially good. His demand for greater rigor and the pursuit of excellence has had an excellent effect...