Word: rigorous
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...kind of “excitement, vision, and energy that leads to explosive, revolutionary things.” Bill P. Rauch ’84, the new artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, who was also considered for the position, said that Paulus “combines intellectual rigor with experimentation while caring about the audience. She is definitely a populist, after my own heart.” She expressed a desire to continue to make the A.R.T. “a center of arts at Harvard” and emphasized “that the primary constituency will...
...need to keep up with the Joneses, but because of a love of characters. We’re fascinated by other people, and the more real they seem, the better. We empathize with Holden Caulfield, Elizabeth Bennet, and Jay Gatsby; we agonize over their fictional decisions with a rigor comparable to the way we analyze our own. “Battlestar” has amazing characters, so numerous and well-developed that I could spend an entire extra article telling you about how terrific they are. But what’s the point if you’re already...
...many years now, colleges have contented themselves with cleansing their curricula of politically incorrect presumptions and prejudices—so-called Great Books programs and American civic education, to offer two examples—meanwhile creating preserves, regardless of academic rigor, for the trendy and ideological disciplines like the study of women, gender, and sexuality...
What Mazza finds particularly impressive as well is that Gilbert has managed to popularize his findings and spread his ideas to everyday people without compromising the science, and the rigor of his research...
...number one reason parents say they see a day they could leave the public school system is academic rigor,” he said. “Those are things we should let the budget show...