Word: rigidities
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...states and cities, indissolubly wedded to the Great Society, have discovered to their chagrin that most of its distributive mechanisms-its knees and elbows-are glued together by a welter of rigid and overlapping legislation...
...students' basic aim is to establish a "planning community" in the department instead of the present rigid hierarchy separating faculty and students, several of the organizers explained the week. "We're not undergraduates, and we have our own areas of competence," one commented. In such a "community" atmosphere, students would take part in discussion on curriculum and policy...
...research, and is a forsaking of a productive Harvard tradition. It may seem puzzling that Harvard was unable to staff a professorship in what is in fact the largest specialty in psychology. The affair is tremendously complicated; but one thing is clear: the University has promoted the application of rigid academic standards even in a field where clinical experience and competence are obviously relevant...
...Pushing. In Utah he declared grandiloquently that Johnson is being "ambivalent in a completely flexible situation." In Alaska and Idaho, on the other hand, Romney found Johnson "locked into his own mistakes and a rigid defense of his position." He also denounced the Administration's approach as "clumsy, ill-timed and poorly coordinated." In stop after stop, Romney called Johnson "sincere in his search for peace. I do not wish to be one of those who undermine his efforts...
...alphabet 3,000 years ago, abetted by Gutenberg's introduction of movable print in the 15th century, turned mankind into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent of "electrical technology"-radio and records, television and telephones-has changed...