Word: rigidities
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...themselves about what personal stance to take, but have ended up more confused. Most people realize by now, for example, that the challenged U.C. Davis Medical School special admissions program goes beyond what is normally understood as affirmative action, but they question the charges that it amounts to a rigid quota system...
...difficult, though, to make rigid comparative judgments about the objects on display. The Corinthian helmets and hammered gold shields may intrigue some people more than reliefs of buxom goddesses, while others may be drawn to metal worked laurel wreaths used to honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare...
William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, offers a different sort of advice: don't restrict yourself to a rigid approach to the subject while doing research. "English teachers said to outline, but that's not how the mind works," says Perry. "You need to collect data and mess around with it, until the thoughts come out of the material...
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday the election of Mitchell K. Ross '78 represents the final stage of Harvard Hillel's three-part transition from a rigid president-vice president structure to the more cooperative system of a chairman elected by the 12-member coordinating committee...
...response to members' complaints that the rigid schedule prohibits students from asking probing questions, CHUL this year will institute a 20 minute question-and-answer period, during which the discussion of any topic will be permitted...