Word: rigidities
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Mess. The stakes go far beyond whatever may be discovered about Watergate. Already, the adverse implications of that affair have undermined the credibility of Richard Nixon as a leader devoted to rigid standards of old-fashioned morality, to a stern and equal application of law, to an open and accountable Administration. Until the Watergate mess is cleared up, Nixon's closest political and official associates -and the President himself-will be operating under the handicap of a widespread and bipartisan suspicion that they have something sinister to hide...
...well as other groups would have a break this semester since Franklin Ford was not noted for his crisis handling abilities. After the GSTFU strike was called off a Crimson editorial appeared which took special pains to attempt to pillory Dean Ford for what was called his unnecessarily rigid position toward the Union and its demands, a position which the editorial offered even the big gun himself, John Dunlop, would not have held...
...family farm was supposed to be endangered by the corporations that invaded agriculture a few years back. But they turned out to be helpless on a land they could not really understand, clumsy brontosauruses bogged down in rigid procedures. Relying on a labor force that lacked the farmer's single-minded devotion to the soil, they could not make a profit. One after another, United Brands, Tenneco, S.S. Pierce and other companies have retreated from the fields, abandoning some or all of their farm ventures...
...certain concepts of God could no longer work for modern man: the personal, loving father-figure God of the Bible, for instance. While that God was dying, a New Morality was being baptized, a "situation ethics" that told man that moral judgments were dependent on individual circumstances, not on rigid rules...
...show how even the notions of maleness and femaleness vary from place to place. As she explained later: "It was a simple-a very simple-point to which our materials were organized in the 1920s, merely the documentation over and over of the fact that human nature is not rigid and unyielding." Linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf contributed to cultural relativism by stating that different linguistic groups conceive reality in different ways, that the way they think shapes the language they speak and vice versa...