Word: rigidity
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...patriotic fervor rather than revolutionary enthusiasm to maintain his hold on the populace. There is, in fact, little of the old guerrilla spirit left in Cuba: like Castro, the revolution has gone middle-aged and gray. Visitors to Havana are struck by the similarity to most Communist countries: a rigid bureaucracy, a once lively press that is now dismissed even by sympathetic leftists as boring, buildings that are shabbily maintained...
...seriousness. The beautiful, wealthy and unfulfilled woman leaves her husband and the comforts of a Fifth Avenue apartment to become a "courtesan to truth," or more literally, to Lautner. Her predicament revolves around her inability to determine what constitutes duty--to an oppressive mother, an enfeebled father, a rigid and insecure mate--and to free herself of all unincurred obligation. Secondly, she aims to lead a moral life, to fight hungers of all sorts. Her dream is rooted in memories of a past vacation trip to India...
...believed. Paul Fussell, 59, a Pasadena-born Anglophile and former professor of English at Rutgers, asserts that there are nine rigid castes in the U.S. They range from the out-of-sight rich living off capital in grand seclusion, to the destitute, who are also well hidden. In between are various levels of uppers, middles and "proles," Shaw's and Orwell's abbreviation of proletariat, now Fussell's gleefully derogatory term for blue-collar workers...
...situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows his plane to veer from its rigid course and weave through the sky, passing unusually dream-like cloud formations. The scene lacks only the requisite cigarette. It's a solo experience, without doubt, and each pilot displays a not unattractive narcissism. "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?" one asks his wife again and only to answer...
...table." Reagan's advisers surely knew that if she were picked, Kirkpatrick could be expected to exacerbate rather than mediate Administration turf and ideological disputes. Her hard-line views, held with sometimes evangelical fervor, can be bracing when aired in the U.N. hall, but might be too rigid in the pivotal White House foreign policy slot...