Word: rigidities
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...Transvaal. But already last week, South Africans−white and black alike−were seeking to interpret the soul-cry of rage that came from Soweto. Some whites saw in the violence a nightmarish vision of South Africa's future if the government ever eases its rigid rule over the blacks. There were demands that Parliament enact emergency legislation to prevent a recurrence of the trouble−demands that Vorster will surely reject, if only because the country's existing laws seem strong enough...
...alcoholism should not drink at all." Instead, they said, their findings suggest that in treating alcoholism, goals be set that are more "flexible" than only abstinence. Their views were shared by Dr. Morris Chafetz, former director of N.I.A.A.A., who calls current thinking about the treatment of alcoholism "rigid, stereotypic and possibly self-defeating. For a person who lives in a drinking society to think that he must stop drinking entirely to stop his alcohol problem may discourage him from seeking treatment until he is really down in the dumps...
...most Americans, Communism conjures up images of the rigid, bureaucratized economic systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Its main characteristics are state ownership of all enterprises, collectivized agriculture, strict government planning. Is this the vision offered by the Communist parties of Western Europe? To varying degrees, the answer is no. Western Europe's Communists say they want to create a sort of Eurocommunism that draws its inspiration from neither the Soviet Union nor China nor Yugoslavia. "None of the models existing in the world today apply to us," says José Maria González, economic spokesman...
...life. This in itself, however, is important, because none of Pound's previous biographers attempted to present the political side of Pound's life. In fact they've remained rather defensive about it, as if the artificial separation of Pound the poet and Pound the man were a rigid one and Pound's life was only worth examining because of his poetry...
Juan Carlos' public pronouncements have been few and bland. Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that the King may be a good deal less cautious than either Fraga or Arias, a timid holdover from Franco's days who is probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain...