Word: rigidness
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...embodies this order, and thus serves as the figurehead of the underworld community. His unmistakable style is as much a function of his well-groomed physical authority and grace, reflecting a rigid moral code. Bob serves as an example to all around him, including his protege Polo (Daniel Cauchy), who strains to emulate him at every turn. Next to some of the violent, cynical figures that populate the American underworld film landscape. Bob almost appears as a typical French bourgeois moyen in his well-being and self-righteousness...
Harvard's own existential bunch of Pied Pipers a couple of seasons back ridiculed an American President and the cadets' rigid stance at the West Point Stadiums...
...served as director of the State Department's Office of Cuban Affairs; he then went to Havana to head the U.S. interests section before resigning last month. While acknowledging that no U.S. Administration has ever devised an effective policy for dealing with Fidel Castro, Smith especially blasts the rigid, confrontational approach of the Reagan White House. From the start, Smith contends, the Reaganauts were obsessed with forcing Cuba to stop meddling in Central America and, in particular, to quit supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. But U.S. attempts to pressure Castro backfired; he responded by seeking more...
Large public universities, for instance, are suddenly raising or establishing cutoff scores and grades for admission. That practice has ing been considered too rigid, and hence unfair. In an even blunter attempt to spur high schools to action, some systems, like California's are adopting specific curricular requirements. They're refusing to consider anyone without a set number of years in English, math, and so forth. Others are considering shifting their admissions emphasis to Achievement Tests, rather than SATs, and that, too, is adding to the momentum of attempted curriculum manipulation...
This sort of space-cadet's anti-intellectualism is especially troubling at a time when real-life intellectuals are suddenly finding themselves threatened by rigid fundamentalists. Proponents of the bankrupt theory of creationism have launched a surprisingly successful crusade against teachers of evolution. Stern schoolboards have revived the archaic practice of book-banning; their hysterical search for evil influence in the most innocent quarters calls to mind nothing so much as a swinging single's fear of herpes...