Word: rigidities
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...words, the stylized rigid words would not come; nor those loose-limbed fluid cries. Instead she was assaulted by the memories of a group of flowers she had planted carefully somewhere behind the small South Carolina house long...
...conspiracy when minority candidates are asked outlandish questions, when different standards are applied to minorities and non-minorities. In such circumstances a court is justified in imposing a quota, and a legislature may give authorities power to impose one. Sometimes resistance to discrimination takes so many forms that only rigid numerical rule can overcome it. It is certainly not the situation in the universities...
...gone by the place on the opposite side of the Hudson, and between food fights with those wonderfully messy cherry pits had seen the bastion of American militarism from a distance. I had envisioned an incredibly repressive place, but what I found instead was a peculiar mixture of rigid adherance to arbitrary rules and a strange brand of permissiveness...
...candidates. This is particularly true of the state schools, which have more than half the medical school seats available. In other words, Yale University Medical School may give an understanding nod to the exceptional candidate with a C plus in organic. But Ohio State, with a more rigid, less individualized admissions policy, will probably send out a rejection letter to any candidate with a C plus, exceptional or not. When I mentioned the medical school admissions issue to the organic chemistry professors last year, they replied to the effect that "What the medical schools do with the grade is their...
Mythology has its place, but the possibility of seduction into a rigid and atrophying consciousness is imminent. This is not tryin' to make it real...