Word: rigidities
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...comparison. Already there are enough dollars circulating in the Eurodollar market to empty out Fort Knox several times over. The deeper danger is that European governments will clamp stern controls on the international exchange of money-particularly on the inflow of dollars-and that the U.S. will put equally rigid controls on the import of goods. In Washington, there is much discussion of imposing surtaxes on imports. Any of these steps would damage the system of free trade and investment, which has done so much to promote postwar economic growth. A much more prudent move would...
Even more intense is the students' disgust with the lycée emphasis on rigid classical learning. Although gifted survivors of the grind emerge with sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need as 20th century adults. Children from eleven to 15 are required to recite entire scenes from the plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, plus a spate of La Fontaine's Fables. Even in top classes, pupils must memorize statistics on agricultural, industrial and energy production for long lists...
...letter, Kelly noted that the Second Vatican Council had found "new and richer dimensions" to replace the rigid church conceived by the Council of Trent-the 16th century ecclesiastical assembly that shored up Catholic walls against the Protestant Reformation. He described "the church in which we grew up" as almost completely withdrawn from the world. "It was a church in which discipline and order and conformity to the minutest rubric were paramount values, a church increasingly irrelevant and unintelligible to men." In Detroit, he said, he lost all hope for change: "Discussion is impossible...
...finding her opinions prevailing, like the order of nature. With her usual demanding expectations, Miss Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless sons more or less as if Appomattox (and her marriage) had never happened...
...stature and tragic privileges of a minor Jocasta. She is not only more to be pitied but more to be admired than her old friends, whose embrace of social justice is tepid with opportunism. It is also made evident that the doctrinaire liberals from the North are as blindly rigid...