Word: rigidities
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...price of China's advances, in short, has been a conformity and group discipline that would be beyond belief in the West. It is far more rigid than anything to be encountered in the Soviet Union...
These marginalia dovetail with Anderson's more important work. A wide vein of moralism runs through much of his writing and his suddenly prominent persona. Though congenial and even gentle off the job, he adopts an almost snarling style in his frequent speechmaking and conveys rigid righteousness on paper. In his own mind he is a man with a mission; its imperatives are not to be denied. He calls himself a "watchdog on government" and says that he was "brought up with a sense of duty and a sense of outrage." He insists that the drinking or leching capers...
...security arrangements surrounding Hughes are as rigid as ever, but there are hints that he might take one minute step toward interrupting his troglodytic existence. In Los Angeles, a spokesman said that Hughes might soon release a new photograph of himself, the first to reach the public since the early 1950s...
...creative work. It insists that knowledge does not fall in neatly separate compartments and that work and play are not opposite, but complementary." Featherstone outlines primary school examples in Leicester shire and Bristol where time and space are freed to allow classroom explorations to cover more than a single rigid discipline at a time, to permit children to learn from one another, and to facilitate each individual's development of confidence in self-expression by making choices available among learning opportunities. The teacher helps to create situations which fulfill the children's real interests and requirements. An emphasis on "messing...
...back grounds were far more receptive to being treated by a woman than were older people. This, Engleman suspects, is because younger patients are closer to the time when they were cared for by their mothers and perhaps by woman pediatricians. Also, the young generally have less rigid attitudes toward sex and the sexes...