Word: rigidities
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...electric tremor shoots through the hall. Everyone "shapes" for Pete; it becomes a matter of pride to be picked by him. Most of the men know that he never will choose them, yet they jostle to get into the front row of his section, and even the oldtimers grow rigid with respect and intimidation when someone calls out: "Here comes Pete now." To the young hero narrator it becomes a matter of the first importance to be given the nod by Pete. Why? Is it that Pete picks only the best, separates the men from the boys...
...working within it, but one of olding whether or not it is Riesman regards examinations grading as manifestations of pattern. A examination than marks the end of one course the beginning of the next; a is a way of producing " people"--it assigns each person category which is impersonal rigid. In both cases, Riesman tends, the artificial "boxes" damaging...
...most compelling "proofs" of the change in physical capabilities induced by the hypnotic trance, Orne observed, is the famous two chair experiment. In this experiment the subject, supported by chairs at head and feet, attains a position rigid enough to sustain the weight of another person. However, Orne performed the same demonstration with a volunteer in the waking state, showing that the "feat" is within the capacity of the normal, healthy person...
...Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...
...same sort of missions off the coast of the U.S.; Soviet planes constantly probe the DEW line radars that reach from Alaska across Canada. And since the ferrets must come as close as possible to coastal defenses without leaving international airspace, their careful flight plans follow courses as rigid and regular as a railroad route. There was no doubt that the Soviets knew exactly where the Olmstead-McKone RB-47 intended to fly as it circled north. If Soviet radars had not been able to trail other planes along the same route, those planes would not have been able...