Word: rigidities
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...when a whole slew of Dean biographies appeared, many of them are still remarkably mystical. Dean's acting ability is debatable, his recognition as a prophet is certainly dismissable, but the effects he had are undeniable, and clearly he was tapping some of the pockets of unrest which the rigid fifties were producing...
...answer, once again, is that the rigid imperatives of policy got in the way of bold, forward-looking thinking. "There was a fear around here of self-fulfilling prophecies," says one official privy to the discussions. "There was also a sense that the people upstairs didn't want to be told what to do 'if.' They wanted to be told 'if' wasn't going to happen, and they wanted us to concentrate on making sure it didn't happen." Or as another official puts it, "The support-the-Shah-to-the-hilt policy...
...Washington, officials seemed ready to accept Castro's amnesty proposal at face value. "Better behavior on human rights is bound to improve the climate," said a State Department Cuban specialist. In the past, Attorney General Griffin Bell, worried about possible infiltrators among amnestied refugees, has insisted on rigid and lengthy screening procedures. Castro mocked that cautious approach last week, arguing that "no U.S. Administration can deny these people." This time, Washington has said it will try to speed up the process...
Educational Theorist John Holt, author of Why Children Fail, used to tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...
...subscribers (at $10 a year). Within a decade, he estimates, almost 500,000 U.S. families will be schooling their children at home. That figure, he concedes, comes "out of a blue sky," yet it might not be all that fanciful. More and more parents are becoming disenchanted with rigid programs, school strikes and the reluctance of teachers to accept responsibility for students' failures to learn...