Word: rigidities
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Addressing the nation on television and radio, dressed in an open-necked set of fatigues without insignia, Thieu named as new Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, one of the most popular and respected civilian politicians in South Viet Nam. A grey-haired schoolteacher renowned for his rigid honesty, Huong was twice mayor of Saigon and briefly Premier in 1964-65. He ran for President of the new civilian government last fall, and finished fourth-but handily carried the city of Saigon...
...grading practices. There is little doubt that they can make an immense contribution to such planning-and there is no question about the justice of their claim that many courses are, indeed, irrelevant. Harvard's law faculty is pleased with a student-initiated drive that liberalized its once-rigid curriculum, added numerous elective courses...
Exact cause of death has not yet been determined. Heart specialists conjectured that death was caused by an inborn misconception of format: The Lampoon's rigid structure, dominated by the short story form, inhibited free circulation of wit and frustrated doctors' attempts to heal...
...emotion, and to set the lonely Caesar apart from the more broadly drawn figures who surround him. The greatest virtues of the performance are, however, confined largely to scenes of dialogue. In Caesar's relatively few longer set speeches, Seltzer tends to lapse into a rhetorical and inflectionally rigid style of speech which contributes little to his readings...
...United Party fell and the Nationalist Party, with a rigid policy of total apartheid, came into power. Increasingly repressive laws, disguised as "Suppression of Communism Acts," silenced opposition and further limited what doctors like Dr. Salber could do for the native and mulatto population. Most white South Africans, Dr. Salber explained, were "shocked, but then they accepted the laws. Who wants to go to jail without a trial? We could see that it was going to be increasingly difficult for people who thought differently than the government. If you didn't agree, you had to shut up and live with...