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...candidates said that these measures are too rigid...
What indeed? Zurbaran was an artist of unquestioning Roman Catholic faith, whose entire career was spent devoutly illustrating the most rigid and minute dogmas of the monastic orders he worked for (Dominicans, Franciscans, shod and barefoot Mercedarians, Trinitarians, Hieronymites, Carthusians, Carmelites). Yet in no small irony he became a favorite of French anticlericals two centuries and more after his death. Even the surrealists, who hated the church on principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter...
...first concerned about neglecting his research when he was asked to assume control of the struggling space-science program at IKI in 1973. The position offered a measure of independence (though hardly on a level enjoyed by top NASA scientists), but it was still part of the rigid Soviet scientific bureaucracy. Recalls Sagdeyev: "It meant a big change in my life-style. There was a desire to do my own research and yet the obligation to run a large institution with many projects. But I didn't expect such a long imprisonment...
Spontaneous public events are going the way of the past, to be replaced by more official, better planned mass events. As they become the dominant from of public expression it is inevitable that the less rigid old-style from of public meeting will be viewed negatively. How else can one explain the MDC's vastly over blown fears of rampant hooliganism at the Head of the Charles...
Several Senators on the panel did not take such a sanguine view of Bork's philosophical backpedaling. Before the hearing, many lawmakers were concerned that Bork was too rigid in his conservative ideology. During the judge's testimony, they wondered aloud if he was, instead, too changeable. "What troubles me is the very significant and profound shifts," said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, who has remained undecided. "Where's the predictability in Judge Bork?" Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy fired a more serious charge at the witness. Accusing Bork of mendaciously softening his ( views to ensure Senate approval, Leahy called the judge...