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...temperament to the fact that he was born a Tartar, not a Russian. It is his Tartar blood, says Nureyev, that gives him "something in common with wild, untamable animals." What he needs most, and in this even his admirers agree, is a little taming-the kind of rigid discipline that he might well have gotten had he stayed in Russia...
...seeking a limited diversity and a considerable concentration of interests, the House system has set up a rigid set of administrative rules that often makes the compromise unworkable. More significantly, those who feel stultified have no place to go (except on leave); they often feel sacrificed to a mere theory of residential education...
...motto on Alfredo Cardinal Otta viani's Vatican coat of arms" is Semper Idem (Always the Same), and the rigid Ottaviani has clearly and consistently argued that the Roman Catholic Church should resist change. As secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, Ottaviani, 72, has diligently searched out those whom he considers modernists and heretics. As undisputed leader of conservative opinion at the Second Vatican Council, he has opposed reform as vigorously as he once opposed the idea of holding the council. But last week, as the Vatican Council's forces for change demonstrated their...
...confusion if we refuse to see everything the play offers us; on the other hand, if we pay close attention to the source of our confusion, the logic works on us as a very potent lesson in the basis of moral judgment, with or without a rigid code of ethics...
...more point: I used the name of Nietzsche as a shorthand for the kind of mercurial frame of mind we're talking about, and definitely not to suggest any "rigid rules of human procedure," or "rigid code of ethics." But this is a small point indeed, and I certainly would not have had to make it if my review had been as clear and meticulous as Mr. Babe's letter and, I should add, his direction of "The Ghost Sonata."--R. W. Gordon...