Word: rigidness
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...recent interview, Curran described the "special offender," as someone who combines unwillingness to conform with the prison's rigid rules with frequent acts of violence...
...monetary system at their meeting in Nairobi last September. Postponing any further action on reform until July, they left in effect the ad hoc system of "floating" exchange rates that has existed since the last big monetary crisis a year ago. If they had agreed at Nairobi to fix rigid exchange rates, the pressures generated by the oil price hike in late 1973 could well have led to huge devaluations and other dislocations and paralyzed the monetary system. As Paul McCracken, former chief economic adviser to President Nixon, says: "It would have been a disaster. Whatever they had agreed...
...most appealing recent images in Washington. To his staff at the Federal Energy Office, he appears a demanding yet informal boss who works as hard as they do. To newsmen, he is one of the few figures in the Nixon Administration who does not divide the world into rigid "we" and "they" categories, but will listen attentively to an opposing viewpoint. To old friends, none of this is any surprise. They see him as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero who decided early what impression he wanted to make, and then carefully arranged his appearance and actions to produce exactly...
...Spain the generations are separated not by a gap but a chasm. There seems to be no bridge at all between those Spaniards born after the Civil War, who hope to slowly modernize the country, and those born before it, who adhere to the rigid ideals of 81-year-old Dictator Francisco Franco. In the wake of the assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque extremists last month, the chasm seems likely to grow wider still...
Unlike tragedy, which unites people of vastly different eras, comedy has a pesky devotion to the calendar. It is rigid as to time present and is extremely vulnerable to time future. What has befallen Holiday is not so much a fail ure of craft as a passage of time in which substantial historical and social changes have occurred...