Word: rigidities
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...helicopters (often an unnerving experience for an airplane pilot) and took ten claustrophobia tests (24 hours each, sealed in a capsule). He worked with the experts of Winzen Research, Inc. of Minneapolis, makers of the balloon that he would "fly. For several weeks before the flight he was in rigid physical training...
Every department is guilty of what the Committee of Eight long ago noted as an "internal tendency to conform." Departments all too often recommend for promotion those men who most nearly come up to their rigid motions of their standards. And it is still an all too common practice for an aging professor to pick a fair haired young boy out of GSAS and groom his as his successor...
...rigid conformity to scholarship goes back further than the recommendations for tenure. It is the teaching fellows, usually second or third-year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their promotions are considered, their teaching record is considered, but it hardly the determining factor. They realize that the good scholar will probably gain the instructorship, rather than the very good teacher...
...gilded cages: "Lucky Jim will not accumulate enough money to change his way of life. He is never going to starve, but he cannot have a dramatic rise in the world ... It is an unexpected result of the Welfare State that it should make the social pattern not less rigid but much more...
Even General de Gaulle has been stirred to offer a "solution" for Algeria. De Gaulle's plan: partition the country into ethnic communities (French, Berber, Arab, etc.) in a "mutation of empire" where the "autonomy would be great but the framework rigid," the whole to be part of a "French ensemble." Such a solution would probably have to be imposed, since the National Liberation Front demands recognition of Algeria's complete independence as the first condition of an armistice. But France, which has sent 700,000 troops to Algeria since the war began and is spending over...