Word: rigidities
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Alyosha lend us your sacred know how now. Teach us to make your children forget what has made them rigid. Teach us to make them first limp and fearless, then to raise them again with the new backbone and fiber and flexibility. Let us teach them to die and know death is not the worse there...
There the discipline proved as rigid as the convent's, with classical presentations of Racine, Corneille and Molière. But Geneviève could never quite adhere to any tradition. Two months before graduation, she was offered a part in a professional production of The Barber of Seville. She took a leap without a net. "A diploma can't get you work in the theater," she decided. "But a part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl...
...complete line 19)." The Post Office may not be able to match that, quite, but it regularly exceeds its own heroic standards of inefficiency. One letter took 16 days to move from Massachusetts to New Jersey. Neither bureaucracy nor political interference nor rigid seniority rules help the postman complete his appointed rounds...
...books have been bestsellers all over the world. Millions have come to know the portly defense counselor from the television serial. As far off as Saudi Arabia, Perry Mason reruns have the population wondering about the advantages of the jury system over King Feisal's rigid religious courts...
...Smith." Bud implored, "all America's behind you, kid. From the ghettos to the penthouses, they're riding on this shot," Smith made the point, and for a moment, Collins was rigid with hope. Later, when it was over, I watched Bud as he filed his story over the telephone, clad in his winter uniform-double-breasted navy blazer, party-dude striped pants, de Bergerat shoes. He seemed calm and in control. But it would have killed him to hear what Stolle and Newcombe were saying just a few feet away...