Word: rigidities
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Hawkins was a prig and a puritan, horrified at Johnson's well-known frailties of flesh and soul. He knew Johnson when Bozzy was still a schoolboy. But Boswell says truthfully enough that "from the rigid formality of his manners, it is evident that [Hawkins and Johnson] never could have lived together with companionable ease and familiarity." When Hawkins resigned from Johnson's famous Literary Club after a short membership. Dr. Johnson wryly pronounced him "unclubbable," and the tag has stuck...
...Russian, Hindus concludes, live in a society built upon a strong ideological foundation. Economical and institutional walls do tumble here and there, and others are torn down and rebuilt. Having no rigid structure, their society is-as yet- a house without a roof...
...most pragmatic politician-statesman is Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, a man whose goals, once set, stay set. Characteristically, the goals Frondizi set for his journey to the U.S. and the U.N. last week were rigid-but realistic. He was determined to convince highly placed North Americans of his unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count...
...present the only major victims are the ignorant and apathetic consumer and the still reasonably vigorous economy. But one wonders how long the federal government can afford to function in such a narrow-minded, rigid, and arbitrary...
...meteoric dust particles on their way down from space was a far more difficult job. In 1958-59, Bowen got Australian air force jets to carry dust-collecting apparatus up as high as 45,000 ft. There they found plenty of dust, but higher flights were needed for rigid proof that the high-altitude dust had not merely been blown aloft from the surface of the earth...