Word: rigidities
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...Foundation for Mind Research in New York City, finds that while "the Jesus trip gives them rich expectations and more rigid values, they also suffer a narrowing of conceptual vision. They become obsessed." She cites the case of one girl who turned to the Jesus movement after a severe family crisis. "She escaped her guilt and horror, but it had the effect of a psychological and social lobotomy. Where once she had been superbly inquisitive, she now could relate things only in terms of her religion ?but she had a focal point for all her energy." Sociologist Andrew Greeley...
...monetary system can move either toward greater rigidity, with spreading controls on the movement of capital, or toward greater flexibility, with more frequent shifts in the exchange rates of big-time currencies. Proposals are being made in both directions. Many of the discussions are as secret as sin, to prevent speculators from gaining fortunes after sniffing out future changes. As University of San Francisco Economist Frederick Breier says: "In the old days, two subjects were taboo: sex and exchange rates. The first taboo has been lifted, but the second should not be." Still, many details of the proposals have filtered...
...Connally has made no hint of reciprocal U.S. trade concessions, and Europeans resentfully interpret his talk as a challenge to start a knock-down fight on trade. Though trade is important, monetary reform is, too. Even in an ideal world of unrestricted trade, the present monetary system is too rigid and dated to stand unchanged...
Somewhat fewer than a hundred women poured out of a rickety old building off of Men Drive. They had not had a chance to shower for a few days, many of them talked tough-much to the horror of some rigid observers. Among the women, there were some who were in love with each other. This fright need some people...
...Harvard, there was SDS and its guiding force, the Progressive Labor Party: this year's freshmen met the movement at Harvard only in them. Now as never before their rigid ideology seemed stultifying and irrational, their activities seemed clamorous roboticism, their causes obscure: as the bombs dropped on North Vietnam, SDS held a demonstration against Harvard's system of parking fees for workers; as crowds marched to Boston Common to protest the invasion of Laos, SDS demonstrated at Holyoke Center against Harvard's apprenticeship program. Many felt that if SDS was the best that radicalism at Harvard could provide, even...