Word: rigidities
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Radcliffe has also increased the flexibility of the admissions procedure in two ways, Mrs. Stimpson added. A personal interview is no longer mandatory, and there is no rigid deadline for reporting test scores. "A girl in Hong Kong may simply not be able to take her tests at the same time as everyone else," Mrs. Stimpson pointed...
...existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that he goes momentarily rigid with paralysis and then turns deaf, blind and mute. Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed by despair. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married-but my wife won't give me a divorce." It occurs...
...forced Chambers' thought processes into a rigid either-or frame that, once accepted, he could never escape-and it led naturally to a trust in Marxism. He was incapable of dealing with ideas as an intellectual game. "For me," he confessed, "an idea was the starting point of an act." He entered college in the early '20s as a sobersided conservative who thought Calvin Coolidge was the greatest Republican since Lincoln, and he left college convinced that the walls of civilization had cracked and were at the toppling point. "I felt that the world was too old," Chambers...
...Welcoming men of all faiths, M.R.A. claims that it is not a rival to existing churches. Rome suspects that it is, and many Catholic bishops have warned their flocks against joining. A number of Protestant leaders have attacked its ideology as essentially unBiblical, even though M.R.A. is about as rigid as the Old Testament prophets on the need for strict standards of personal conduct. Good members of M.R.A. do not smoke or drink, and even if married are urged to sexual restraint. Last week Peter Howard warned Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson against "satirists and cynics...
...million there, and Jordan's King Hussein has several secret accounts (he signs his checks on one account with a pen name, "The Eagle"). Such depositors appreciate the fact that Lebanon has one of the world's freest capital markets and a Swiss-like secrecy law so rigid that any loose-tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from his oil, insisted on burying his bank notes...