Word: rigidities
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Conspicuous Showing. While the Arab position, despite Hussein's reasonable words, was rigidly frozen by the hawkishness of the left, the Israelis were daily becoming more rigid in their own positions. It was quite apparent that they expect to hold the conquered territory for a long time. They hauled big guns and little patrol boats over the desert to the banks of the Suez Canal, where a handful of blue-helmeted U.N. observers finally took up positions to guard the cease-fire line, conspicuously flying the blue-and-white U.N. flag to ward off trigger-happy soldiers on both...
...refrigerator market in 1962, complained that Italy was exploiting sweatshop labor. It thus won Common Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts to stem the appliance flow. Now. France is considering an official protest to the Common Market Commission...
...that structuralism differs most decisively with preceding trains of thought, including Marxism and existentialism, both of which very nearly deify the historical process. Though the study of Marx helped teach Lévi-Strauss to look for patterns and driving forces in human affairs, he has cooled to its rigid, dogmatic approach. In his colloquial French he says: "I still have the tripe [guts] of a man of the left. But at my age I know it is tripe and not brain." As for Sartre, he is convinced that man has much to learn from history, while...
Speaking for the court, Justice Byron R. White held that warrants are necessary not only because inspections may result in criminal charges but also because the Fourth Amendment is primarily aimed at securing privacy against "arbitrary invasions by government officials." On the other hand, White was mindful that rigid warrant rules might cripple inspections. He announced a compromise: inspectors need not specify "probable cause" that a particular violation has occurred before they make a search. Instead, warrants for "area inspections" may be issued simply because an area is due for inspection...
...success of the reform movement will ultimately rest on student's understanding of what is needed to liberate themselves from the rigid and often depressing effects of the Law School system. Change in the grading system and the expansion of extra-curricular activities, two issues which the student-faculty committee will bring up next year, might be the key to success. Law students now have a ready-made committee to publicize and deliberate student problems -- they must see that it remains effective...