Word: rigidities
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...Honegger of the evening is a late and little-known Concerto da Camera for flute, English horn and strings. Unlike the tense and rigid bombast of his earlier works (notably the symphonies and the oratorios), the concerto is a relaxed, graceful, spacious and thoroughly un-neurotic work. The mood is pastoral but placid--suggesting, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, not an unkempt meadow but a well-rolled English lawn...
...Morocco's King Mohammed V (see above) and to meet with new King Hassan II and the provisional Premier of the F.L.N., Ferhat Abbas. After a late dinner, the three talked until hours past midnight. With the young King's help, Bourguiba tried to soften the rigid and suspicious posture of the F.L.N. and assure them of De Gaulle's good faith...
Behind the crises, as usual, is Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 74, relentlessly determined that the Lavon Affair be settled in his way or not at all. Because of rigid government censorship, nobody ever knew exactly what the Lavon Affair was all about. All that was known surely was that slender, intense Pinhas Lavon, 56, was forced from his office as Defense Minister in 1955 for his alleged responsibility for a "disastrous affair" that went awry...
...Rigid Mold...
Despite the claims of YAF to be a youthful, dynamic, libertarian movement, the rally was cast in the rigid mold right-wing gatherings have used from time immemorial. At least nine American flags hung over the stage. The young officials of YAF had the appearance, as George Sokolsky put it, of "trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography...