Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Individual departments are also following the general faculty's lead and are restricting the freedom of their concentrators. For example, Social Studies now strictly enforces its thesis requirement. History and Literature has tightened the basic requirements for concentrators, setting up rigid introductory course requirements where none had existed before. The Core is just the most floodlit, the culmination of the Faculty's attempts to eliminate much of the students' control of his education at Harvard and to restore it to omniscient Faculty members and administrators...
...unsigned White House memo outlining a more rigid version of this policy surfaced on Capitol Hill last week. Written by Valerie F. Pinson, who is one of Carter's emissaries to the House, the memo said only two categories of Congressmen were eligible for his campaign help...
...that "serious, interesting and positive discussion is unfolding within our party." Marchais himself, when he first heard the rumblings within his ranks, magnanimously announced that "no heads would roll" because of it. That seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France's ever more middle class electorate, it could well slip a few more points when the next election rolls around...
Moffitt says Pinochet has fallen into disfavor with many Chileans who had earlier supported him. He claims the middle class, members of which make up a large portion of the Christian Democrats Party (PDC), has been squeezed by Pinochet's rigid "free trade" Chicago school economic policies, and that there has been a split within the ruling junta. He suggests that there are people in the U.S. and in "influential circles" in Chile who would like to see Pinochet replaced by a government formed by General Gustavo Leigh, commander of the Chilean Air Force, and Eduardo Frei, former president...
Then there are her shoes. All dancers are meticulous about their slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says...