Word: rigidities
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...they struggled over the stricken President, doctors at Dallas' Parkland Hospital discovered that John F. Kennedy was wearing the rigid, corsetlike brace with which he supported his ailing back. Had Kennedy not worn it that November morning in 1963, he might conceivably be alive today. In Philadelphia last week an assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, Arlen Specter, pointed out that Harvey Oswald's first bullet, which struck the President in the neck, would not have proved fatal. Had J.F.K. not been wearing the brace, he suggested, the impact would probably have knocked him out of the line...
...explanations. Senator Abraham Ribicoff argues that the poor "fared badly in the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." Author Harrington speaks of the "thickness" of poverty-the dead ambitions that make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness. One Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks...
...things. Marxists do not get answers from their science - only questions to ask, and a way to go about answering them. If American universities are really teaching their students to believe that membership in the Communist party must imply "a loss of independence of mind, and adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology," then American universities themselves are being close-minded and rigid. Every student's education must suffer, even if just a little, by the injection of such non-truths into the curriculum...
...course, he could not have anticipated the particular problems posed by Communism over thirty years later. Even if one granted a professor the freedom to associate with with any group, didn't membership in the Communist party imply a loss of independence of mind, an adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology, and therefore the impairment of a teacher's purely academic function...
...were straight-for the sake of the spirit. Wrote he: "Natural roundness, in a word, corporeality, gives a purely materialist version of objects." Followers of De Stijl designed furniture, built architecture and patterned typography, industrial and household items after its Mondrianesque rules of severity. This year Mondrian's rigid purism has been stretched over shapes more curvilinear than picture frames by Paris Fashion Designers Andre Courreges and Yves St. Laurent, with Seventh Avenue copyists tagging along...