Word: rigidities
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...Christian call to make a mark, to take a stand, to be counted in the struggle against evil, is not an invitation to put the clock back to Victorian days. It does not mean that we are to become rigid and aggressive moralists with a strict and firm answer to every ethical problem. But it does mean that we are committed to the conviction that there is an answer to be found. We may not always know what is right and what is wrong, but we are to live by the belief that right and wrong are words with power...
...main danger in new math is that it may get too rigid as it spreads more widely. Critics also worry about fads, such as "set theory," a broadly unifying pure math concept that children probably cannot handle at a worthwhile level. But no one is talking about going back to old math. U.S. mathematical literacy can no longer be considered, as Robert Davis puts it, "a matter of God and heredity...
...first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found him back at a spare office in the Pentagon, sitting in a rigid position, staring at the bare wall opposite. When the worried aide tried to talk to him, Forrestal said only: "You are a loyal fellow." When Forrestal went home, he seemed bewildered by the fact that he no longer had an official limousine. Alarmed at his condition, friends bundled...
...internal affairs?" he raged. "Why, why, why? Why did you evacuate your people without informing us? Why will you not recognize us?" He ordered Picard arrested, and armed thugs marched the diplomat off at gunpoint. Next day, Picard and the journalists were ordered off the island, and rigid censorship was imposed on the reporters who remained...
...EAST GERMANY. Bled by massive inefficiency, defections of specialists to the West and a rigid regime that compounds its own mistakes, East Germany now depends on West Germany for much of its manufactured goods. Trade between the two last year reached $500 million. Less known is the fact that, although still small in volume, U.S. exports to East Germany have risen dramatically in the last year, largely through U.S. sales of wheat, tobacco, and other farm goods...