Word: rigidities
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...Afrikaner is a prisoner both of circumstances and of his rigid fascist ideology. Fear dominates him. Hatred churns in his stomach. One can only hope, like Abram Fischer, that the integrity of man will ultimately win through and justice prevail. That seems to be South Africa's only hope. It is a slender thread...
Unlike Doman, the Engelmanns say that a child has an "initial resistance" to learning, that "you must push him" and "make lessons a rigid part of his daily schedule." They urge parents to teach a baby names of parts of the body before he is 18 months old, start on the alphabet in five-minute lessons at 30 months, gradually work up to daily 90-minute lessons. The book details a sequence of teaching steps with specific instructions on how to get across such progressively more complex concepts as geometric shapes (by age three), counting backward (age four), fractions...
Mahgoub was a rigid believer in the orthodox Mahdism preached by the Imam-too rigid, in fact, for his own good. Spurning conciliation, he turned the long-festering rebellion of the nation's three anti-Moslem southern provinces into a full-fledged civil war. He also alienated many members of his own government, a coalition of Umma and the Moslem National Union Party. With the coalition falling apart, Sadik last week decided that the time had come for him to move out of the back ground. Over the vociferous protests of his uncle, the Imam, he led Parliament...
Summer School rules are rigid, ridiculous, redundant, regrettable, and outrageous without being effective. They should be changed...
Radcliffe social rules have been compromised in so condescending a manner that it would appear unbecoming a Summer School by the name of Harvard. As it now stands, the rigid philosophy of the Summer School negates the sense of responsibility that Radcliffe encourages in its students, and deprives Harvard of introducing a wide range of girls to the opportunity of budgeting their own freedom...