Word: rigidities
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...task forces drawn from all levels of the department's bureaucracy, charged the Foreign Service with timidity, inflexibility and lack of creativity. Most of the department's time, said the study, has been "devoted to applying the principles of the late forties in an increasingly rigid way to international conditions that were constantly changing." The authors were equally forthright in assigning causes: "The intellectual atrophy of the department was a compound of presidential dissatisfaction, political reaction, departmental conservatism, bureaucratic proliferation...
...have very little choice but to move in the directions they have chosen. Like so many parts of the American historical experience, this movement, too, is an experiment?risky, unprecedented, but rich with promise. If the U.S. military can significantly reform itself, there is no reason why other less rigid and authoritarian American institutions in Government, education and business cannot succeed as well...
Imprecise Charges. Even as it moved to plant its political seedbed, the regime last week also acted to root out what little unwanted advice and opposition it still has to endure. A few months ago, Papadopoulos slowly began to relax some of the colonels' rigid controls, but hard-liners in the junta's twelve-man inner circle immediately grew alarmed. Now Papadopoulos is retrenching, fearful of losing his struggle to stay on top. One of the measures that he authorized last week was a decree that persons spreading "false reports or rumors" detrimental to anything from police morale...
...sounded promising. And not only was riverrun reputed to be his most ambitions work yet (befitting the Joycean title quote), but its subject matter jibed with our own quasi-idyllic mood. Korty, if anyone, would be able to give us what we thought we wanted, which wasn't a rigid truth or comforting formula, but an impregnable human warmth and beauty...
...Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that can't be disintegrated," she says. "The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order...