Word: rigidities
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...last week of vacant sophomore suites in several River Houses added a new dimension to the debate over the freeze, reducing that debate to a strikingly pragmatic level. With rooms available in several River Houses and sophomores still expressing to housing officials a desire to leave the Quad, a rigid continuation of the freeze would have been an untenable position for CHUL...
...entire play, in the Elliots' cramped, drably decorated apartment in Liverpool) finds the greased-up Finney in the early sixties and on a rampage against the hypocrisy of working class morality--his own and that of his married drinking cronfies. The wedded worker's carnal ethic becomes rigid and depraved, Finney insists: rigid because after "a blighter shafts away until he accidentally shafts his way into marriage" his imposed sense of guilt keeps him from shafting on the side; depraved because the same man makes up for his nagging rigidity by "lusting his life away" with "dirty locker-room jokes...
...presumably hedonistic readers that his own preference for marital fidelity has not given him a holier-than-they attitude. "We are taught not to judge other people," Carter said of his Southern Baptist upbringing. Then, in a rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because...
...revolution forever--that's the internal logic and the sociology of it." Revolution happens, he says, when people feel an intolerable injustice, but it is not required in the push for perfectability. Terrill does allow for the possibility that the Chinese will grow apathetic, making it easier for a rigid bureaucracy to take root--"the old combination of legalism from above and Taoism from below...
...least 20 years his senior, "What you want, boy?" My father struggled to maintain his dignity as he told the clerk what he wanted. I felt in my gut, for the first time, how hard it had been for black men to preserve their self-respect under a rigid system of white supremacy...