Word: rigidities
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...almost continually prospering economy have given them new status and new life. Where there once was one mansion, there are now a hundred $50,000 summer "cottages"?a euphemism that still lingers. Along with the economy and the population, resorts have proliferated westward. Founded on less rigid social standards than those that governed Eastern watering places, resorts in other parts of the country often start with a structure or an area rather than with people. And they offer facilities, rather than snobbery. Today there is scarcely a U.S. family of means, in any section of the country, that...
...aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts from an abstract sculpture and reflects in a pond green with water plants. Even the museum's facade, of Tezontle volcanic rock, evokes the baked brown earth of Mexico. Though it already seems an indigenous part of its immemorial setting, the $13.6 million...
...held its 50th reunion. At Tufts, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach declared that he was all for protest as long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church of Scotland: "My brethren, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken." Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy sounded less patient when he remarked at Notre Dame that "often...
...Friedan challenge was irresistible to Phyllis McGinley. "I rise to defend the quite possible She," she had written many years ago-meaning by that the woman with absolute freedom of choice to find her destiny, not just by the rigid and somewhat outmoded rules of the feminists but in the world of today...
...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...