Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little extra dog food" for his poodle Abner, who wore a sandwich board proclaiming VOTE FOR DARSKY. HE'LL WORK LIKE A DOG FOR YOUR KIDS. But Darsky too was hit with a $300 fine. So were some 100 others who ran afoul of Michigan's ridiculously rigid 1976 campaign...
...right to "participate in the determination of their own future." Begin has proposed "self-rule," meaning a form of local autonomy that still allows for Israeli control of the West Bank. Whatever the eventual wording, it is clearly in the interests of both sides that the language be 1) rigid enough to preclude the Palestine Liberation Organization from taking control of the new entity; and 2) flexible enough to permit some kind of legitimate Palestinian rule, as well as a political and economic link between the West Bank and neighboring Jordan...
...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...
...those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls of Ravenna and points east, is propaganda; there could have been no better medium than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind the faithful that Big Brother was watching, that the eye of the state found its model in the all-seeing...
From the first, Soares had insisted on governing without political alliances. Any compromise, he feared, would further polarize the country's politics. A leftist front involving Alvaro Cunhal's Communists, the most rigid, undemocratic Stalinist party in Western Europe, would alienate the conservative north and scare off sorely needed Western capital. But an attempt to form a coalition with the Social Democrats and the C.D.S.-which Soares last week castigated as "parties of the extreme right"-would have alienated his own party's rank and file. Meanwhile, the Socialists had the unenviable task of trying to right...