Word: rigidities
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SENATOR Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington State is a perplexing study in political paradox. He gaily dismisses his frequent hawk label: "I'm not a hawk or a dove. I just don't want my country to be a pigeon." Still, Jackson remains one of the most rigid supporters of President Nixon's Viet Nam policies. He still firmly believes in the domino theory of Southeast Asian politics and, as far as the rest of the world goes, he is convinced of the ultimate malevolence of the Soviet Union's global intentions. President Nixon thinks...
...audience was silently but clearly told what O'Neill wanted them to know about the old man's strength and his relationship with his son. As Shakespeare's Richard III, he taped a piece of metal to his leg to keep it from bending, then attached a rigid aluminum strip to his arm to make it virtually inflexible. "As I continued to rehearse the play, though," Scott says, "I found I needed these restrictions less and less. The knee taping went during the first week's performance, then the arm. I found I had been programmed to move as though...
...tells us-is really sex, and its walls-from his viewpoint-are really built of the differences between the sexes and the complexities of sexuality, then Kate Millett actually challenges him with two fiats clenched. One, as we have just seen, defies his static notions of sex roles, his rigid mindset for masculinity and femininity. But Millett's other fist is more threatening to Mailer by far. For with her other fist, he thinks she wants to knock out all the mysteries of the womb, knock them out, scatter them into the stratosphere, and in the meantime, replace them with...
...preparation for war are endemic to the system," he charged. "They support it in the short run, but ultimately aggravate the system's built-in destabilization. The present inflation exposes the system as unfair, autocratic and rigid...
...Business School's M. B. A. faculty voted Wednesday to continue next year an experimental "special session" of the normally rigid first-year curriculum, perhaps leading to the first M. B. A. curriculum change in ten years...