Word: rigidities
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...rigid theory of economics is insufficient to explain the behavior of democratic statesmen like F.D.R. and Truman...
...Scribbler's Club voted in a Flash to become outraged Supporters of smooth Operations, modern Systems, and rigid Control. They loudly protested a perfidious and entirely unjustified Stroke of Nature. They ranted, they raved, they marched and they sat until the once Obscure became so Prominent the Wise Teachers were hard pressed to disregard completely the voluble Protestations raining down from every Side and Top and Bottom...
...trend toward "dormitization" which no student protest has been able to halt or even slow down in the face of President Bunting's cheerful determination to make Radcliffe's students choose between dormitory life or "off-off" apartment living. With the former, students can opt for institutional food, rigid existence, and the mass culture that dormitory life entails: or they can choose the latter alternative, and live in a run-down apartment in Cambridge and pay atrocious rent for it, and have a private life but little or no connection with campus life or the main body of Racliffe...
...century, or Detroit in the Roosevelt era and Essen under Hitler. The postwar economic progress of Japan has undoubtedly contributed to the viability of its democratic political system; but East Germany, the most technologically advanced of any Eastern European nation, has achieved economic success under the most rigid and doctrinaire of Communist tyrannies...
...American college education is all about than the necessity of having a "major" (for which, as for most things, we have a different term at Harvard). Clearly we have effected in the last few years a liberalization of many of the constraints in what used to be a rather rigid structure of undergraduate studies. There are not only more departments, there are also inter-departmental programs; there is independent study for credit; there are some creative courses and some virtually student-taught courses. Through all the innovations, however, the concept of departmental concentration has not been seriously challenged...