Word: rigidities
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...Rigid Rules...
Such facts do give pause and, considered alone, raise some doubt about Oswald's guilt. But the commission was not trying Oswald in a court of law. It was neither bound by rigid rules of evidence nor, since Oswald was dead, restricted to the judicial pursuit of getting a final verdict. The commission sought only to get the truth, and in so doing borrowed from both the techniques of the trial lawyer's adversary system (crossexamination and critical interrogation) and the historian's approach (applying logic, intuition and intellect to reach deductions from a mass of often...
...half true, but such assumptions are usually accompanied by the nostalgic and false notion that the past was better, more straightforward, more honest. The fact is that in freewheeling 19th-century America, high-level fraud was far more spectacular than today, when business, trade and politics must function under rigid controls and searching publicity. What has increased is the opportunity for the pettier kinds of cheating, largely because of the growth of communities and of population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities, and cities into megalopolises, nobody knows his neighbor...
...wrong while the author is all right. While other critics gushed over the "lofty literacy" and "awesome depths" of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice two seasons ago, Kerr stuck to his standards. He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin...
...Finley arms her students with a dictionary and a Roget's Thesaurus, finds that both become thoroughly thumbed as the children seek synonyms to fit the rigid line scheme, stretching their vocabularies. To keep them searching, she bans such overworked words as fine, nice, pretty and good. Mrs. Finley is not alone in trying to teach writing in 17 hard syllables: the National Council of Teachers of English reports that haiku are turning up in classrooms throughout the country. Creating a haiku, teachers have found, expands a child's imagery, provides a quick sense of accomplishment because...