Word: rigidities
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...into his pictures to suggest themes of everyday life. He was so inventive, in fact, that Picasso began to refer to him as "Vilbur." after the American Wilbur Wright. After World War I. in which he was badly wounded. Braque became more contemplative. His new paintings were relaxed: the rigid geometry, finally uncaged, became fluid...
...mind. At every point, the lifeguard's vision--and the author's--is unique. "Each morning," says the guard, "as I mount into my chair, my athletic and youthfully fuzzy toes expertly gripping the slats that make a ladder, it is as if I am climbing into an immense, rigid, loosely fitting vestment." In a deceptively smooth metaphoric stream, the lifeguard comments on life and love, sex and salvation from his singularly vantage point...
...most trustedly servile man in Havana, and now determined, if he gets the chance, to shape Cuba to the Kremlin's liking. Bias Roca is an orthodox Communist, cynical, opportunistic, dedicated. He believes in party discipline, and in a Cuba run by committees of technicians under the rigid control of a politburo of himself and his fellow professionals. By nature and by training he distrusts Castro's messianic brand of Marxism, his barefoot government-by-impulse, and his insatiable appetite for personal adulation. Because he could do nothing else, Roca joined forces with Castro, offering the party...
Drunk & Livid. Born in the late 18th century, dueling fraternities were originally aimed at preventing bloodshed betweei campus brawlers armed with pikes and daggers. As it turned out, they ritualized the violence. Setting rigid patterns of drinking and dueling, they became lodges of the most socially acceptable students. Each new member, called a fox, had to prove himself in at least two duels, and later fight a dozen or so bouts as a blooded brother. Cheek scars were so prized that men with minor abrasions inflamed them with pepper or beer, or by placing a horsehair...
...intellectual wind prevailing in German religious thought after the turn of the century. By then, Protestantism had come a long, hard way from Luther and Calvin. During the 17th and 18th centuries, at the hands of their followers, the creative insights of the great reformers had been hardened into rigid dogmatisms-such as a literal acceptance of Biblical miracles-that were left shattered by the rational attacks of the Enlightenment and the discoveries of natural sciences. By 1850, Protestant thinkers had begun to construct a new and liberal religious synthesis that attempted to reconcile Christianity with man's empirical...