Word: rigidity
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...postcard. It is a movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
...Hung explains that he paints as a release from "too much thinking. I feel sometimes that being a scholar is too rigid, too boring...
...Providence R.I. school also has a rigid set of procedures for dealing with students who are caught with any illegal substances. For the first offense, the student receives a letter from the dean, requiring him to sit in on a seminar sponsored by the office for education about alcohol and drugs, Simons says...
...banks of IBM and Tandem computers that run both the Big Board's SuperDot (for designated order turnaround) system and the equivalent operation for the American Exchange, which is known as PER (postexecution reporting). These systems record trades and relay confirmation back to brokers. Officials from both exchanges maintain rigid secrecy about the computers, which are owned and operated by a joint affiliate known as the Securities Industry Automation Corp. It is said, however, that S.I.A.C.'s number-crunching capability rivals that of NASA's Mission Control...
They said that the rigid codification of rulesthat would be necessary to eradicate suchambiguity would limit the University's ability torespond flexibly to offenses against it,introducing more hazards than benefits. A heavilylegalistic disciplinary system would compromiseideals of trust and respect that are central tothe Univeristy's mission, members said...