Word: rigidness
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...Herrnstein campaign was unsuccessful largely because SDS, influenced here by the rigid doctrines of the old-Left Progressive Labor Party (PLP), remained isolated from most of the University community...
...partly explained by both economic and social factors. A policeman's job used to carry relatively high status and pay for working-class people. This is no longer so true. Among the unsuitable applicants seeking to fill the ranks are men whose ambition it is to enforce rigid law and order with gun or nightstick. And some men with a criminal bent figure that the safest place from which to operate-whether as burglars, child molesters or firebugs-is from the sanctuary of a protective force...
...rigid indifference, not to say ferocious hostility, with which the middle classes reacted to claims made upon it by and for the poor after the French
...hearing of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Walter Heller, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under J.F.K., declared that a "rigid $250 billion budget ceiling is not high enough to allow us the stimulus we need." Without more spending than $250 billion, he said, there is little likelihood that unemployment, now at an unhealthy 5.5%, will significantly decline in the next two years. On the other hand, said Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, the recovery will continue if the U.S. holds to policies of "easy money and exceptionally daring deficit financing...
...character and could tell as many tales as Scheherazade about her. Producer-Director Eleanor Perry, who has bought the book for the movies, has proclaimed it "the first Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than the men who try to run her life. But Marilyn Durham is not inspired by headlines. What she is doing is spinning her yarn in the age-old, instantly recognizable...