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Critics charge the Administration with being rigid and unrealistic...
...Stalinism that Gornick believes many Communists and sympathizers already suspected but could not face. For her, the 20th Congress Report "snapped the last thread in a fabric of belief that was already worn to near disintegration." As a feminist 15 years later, she watched closely as consciousness succumbed to rigid rhetoric. But for Gornick, the knowledge that "dogma was the kiss of death for all thought" was cathartic. At long last, she forgave the Communists for their mistakes and began again to love them for their passion...
...more guidance in what they study. Says Government Professor Michael Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area of study and one year for electives...
Richard M. Hunt, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and director of the fellowship program, yesterday attributed the decline in applicants to Harvard's reputedly rigid preselection process, which he said may dissuade qualified people from applying...
Hungary's price structure is less rigid than in most Marxist-Leninist states...