Word: rigidities
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...character of their discipline, identification between the content of the subject and the faculty who practice it, as has often occurred in Economics, is less likely to happen in Sociology. Radical economists came into irreconcilable conflict with senior faculty because they disagreed with the whole of a coherent, relatively rigid theory of neo-classical economics. In this way, the radicals challenged an accepted science that was tied to the intellectual and professorial identity of the economics faculty. There could be no compromise on either side...
Erratic Behavior. The incident savaged Mills' reputation on Capitol Hill, where he has been known through the years as a circumspect man of rigid moral principles. In recent years, however, friends have witnessed a sad character change in Mills. They have become concerned about his erratic behavior and heavy drinking as his once distinguished career has foundered. His difficulties began three years ago when he made an abortive run for the presidency and took it seriously, though other Democrats did not. More recently, the Watergate prosecutor and a grand jury have quizzed Mills' staffers on illegal gifts to that campaign...
...quarrel with Spínola about the revolution's fundamental aim of restoring civil liberties and holding democratic elections. "The trouble was," Alves said, "that Spínola had a different analysis of how to go about this process. He was too pessimistic, too gloomy, too rigid...
...book, tentatively titled "Lyndon Johnson: The Tyranny of Benevolence," presents Johnson as a man torn between humanitarian instincts inherited from his mother and a rigid concept of manhood taught by his father. This personality conflict, Kearns writes, can help explain the guns-and-butter policies of Johnson's presidency...
...Rigid Control. In a sense, both Betty Ford and Pat Nixon were veterans. Not so the younger, more fragile blonde who last week sat silently in the Heritage Room of Boston's Parker House and watched her husband bow out of the 1976 presidential contest. Joan Kennedy, demonstrating the rigid control expected of political wives in America -especially Kennedy wives-stayed calm and clear-eyed, her gaze focused on a point near her husband, her hands folded demurely in her lap. She remained all but immobile when her husband said that he would not subject his family...