Word: rigidities
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...will include his own introduction and Malcolm X's three speeches at Harvard. This series, Epps points out, is indicative of the major phases Malcolm X went through. The first lecture given in 1961 at the Law School Forum, when he appeared as the disciple of Elijah Muhammad, was "rigid and fanatic and filled with Black Nationalist rhetoric...
...much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren Eiseley defines the problem: "It would be an awful bother to have to reorient oneself every morning. If you build a skyscraper so rigid that it cannot sway, it will crack and break under the tension. The same is true of social institutions; change must be allowed for. But for an institution to be an institution, it must perforce have some rigidity." The U.S. has long managed to maintain a unique compromise between change...
...boards divided into squares. Checkers is a battle royal that ends when one opponent sweeps his adversary off the board; in Go, each player is given 180 pieces, or stones-enough so that he can never run out. In chess, the pieces vary in power according to a rigid hierarchy of values reflecting the medieval world...
...remarkable air-safety record might be better than it is. The obstacles are largely matters of economics. Safety costs time and money, pares the payload and performance of the plane, and ultimately has to be paid for by the passenger. Every modern plane is structurally safe according to rigid Government standards, but airlines have been known to put pressure on planemakers to work closer and closer to the lower levels of acceptability. Mechanics do not knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure...
...place, hooking themselves into Gemini's nose. An electric motor aboard Agena spun into action, retracting the docking cone, pulling Gemini's nose about two feet into the Agena and connecting the electrical systems of the two craft. On Agena's exterior instrument panel, a green "rigid" sign flashed on, indicating that Gemini and Agena were now physically and electronically linked in a steely embrace. It was 6:15 p.m. For the first time, man had joined two craft in space...