Word: rigidities
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...There are no longer any great secrets in the world. But Carter will soon discover that to conduct foreign policy publicly is neither possible nor desirable." One danger is that revealing negotiating postures in such sensitive matters as SALT or the Middle East may force other nations into a rigid stance they otherwise might not assume...
...Your mother is a remarkable woman, the bravest person I know," Leland told Brooke. "But she can't tolerate what she can't understand." For his part, Leland was an absentee father, too rigid in his own way to come to terms with marriage and children. The divorce was amicable enough for the parents, but devastating to the three kids...
DEAN EPPS'S DECISION last week to deny permission for the Radcliffe Union of Students to hold an all-women's dinner at the Mather House dining hall reveals both a lack of sympathy with the legitimate interests of Radcliffe women, and an overly rigid interpretation of a general University policy. The prohibition was occasioned by RUS's request that one of its monthly women's dinners be held at Mather, partly to encourage River House women to attend a usually Quad-based activity. In previous months the dinner has been held at South House's Moors Hall facility...
...vote came only a few hours after a Carter blast at Senate opponents of Warnke; at his midweek press conference, the President accused them of being rigid hawks who simply "don't want to see a substantial reduction in nuclear weapons." Warnke's opponents quickly-and plausibly-characterized the close vote on the SALT job as a warning to Carter (and Moscow) that any arms agreement unacceptable to congressional hard-liners may face difficulty in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for ratification...
Lancelot's plan is clearly crazed. Percy's questioning is something else. Simply by asking whether flaccid tolerance is not as brutalizing as rigid in tolerance, he raises the kind of issue that good fiction can most thoroughly show in the round. Despite its occasional reediness of tone and a bitterness that seems more peevish than profound, Lancelot makes an entertaining run at high seriousness. It is easy to read and hard to forget. Paul Gray