Word: rigidities
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...give the world an absolutely inerrant Bible. Today's liberals, on the other hand, recognize and generally emphasize the human, historical factor in the Bible's composition?a view that goes much farther in explaining its apparent contradictions and deficiencies. Believing critics argue?and experience has sometimes shown?that rigid faith is the most vulnerable to complete destruction. In their view, the believer who can live with some doubt is more likely to keep some faith. An occasionally fallible Bible, therefore, is a Bible that paradoxically seems more authentic...
...Rigid Rules. If adopted by the 2,038 delegates in Kansas City, the charter would be the first constitution ever accepted by either of the two major parties, which have been run by sets of rules that could be changed with relative ease as various factions gained power. The Democrats' proposed charter would give the party a formalized and comprehensive set of rules that would be more difficult to alter. Provisions deal with such basic issues as the power of the national organization over state parties; proportional representation in primaries...
Every once in a while (schedules are not rigid in the South Pacific), the natives of Tanna island daub their chests with red paint to spell out the letters U.S.A. Then, equipped with bamboo poles to symbolize rifles, they march down to the shores of the Pacific to await the arrival of John Frum. This godlike figure, whose origin is shrouded in mystery, is a legendary black cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is expected to reappear from the surf some day with all the Jeeps and chewing gum and other marvels that G.I.s brought to the New Hebrides during...
...professional military resist party authority? For one thing, the army may only be trying to prevent any reduction of the great power it has held in the provinces since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1969. For another, the military leaders, who tend to be relatively conservative and rigid, may feel that the endless leftist experimentalism of Mao Tse-tung has retarded China's development. A secret Central Committee circular of last summer, which found its way out of China only recently, reports on production declines in key industrial areas, as well as popular disaffection with...
...great majority of homicides are committed by law-abiding, conscientious, rigid individuals who are unable to express aggression except in an explosive manner. They kill a loved one or an acquaintance against their own conscience. The presence of a gun is the critical variable in this type of homicide. In the absence of firearms, aggressive explosions end quickly, causing only verbal or physical assaults...