Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very rigorous," relates the man onstage, describing the exam which prevented him from becoming a judge and forced him to a dreary life down in the coal mines. "Very rigorous indeed. Noted for its rigor. People would walk out of it and say, 'My God, that was rigorous...
...walked out of Winthrop JCR last week saying that, for Beyond the Fringe is not at all rigorous. It is the very quintessence of non-rigorousity. The epitome of that which lacks rigor. It takes rigorousness and knees it in the groin. De rigeur...
Instead of rigor, the Winthrop House Drama Society presentation of 20 skits provided two hours of light, welcome, reliably funny absurdity that ranged from the amusing to the hilarious...
...Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and St. Paul's tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going out in the rain without rubber overshoes, and eleventh-graders had to ask permission...
...arbitrary - they are the names of places around Rio de Janeiro, picked off a map. But they accord well with the tropical exuberance and intensity of Stella's new colors, the metallic yellows, fuchsias and purply blues that give the paintings their extraordinary mixture of lushness and rigor...