Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High on the list of political priorities, according to Goodwin, are the decentralization of power and formulation of a foreign policy. He said that institutions have become more rigid, people have lost a sense of their own value, and, more than ever, people have lost their freedom of choice...
...Archdiocese of San Antonio. Signers of the letter included 13 pastors, four monsignors and ten present or past officials of the local chancery. One of them, the Rev. John Klein, 29, said that he was quitting as vice chancellor of the archdiocese because, among other things, of "the present rigid, pyramid structure of church authority...
Since Saturday's Alcoholic Beverage Control investigation, club manager James G. Sullivan expects the Pudding will "ask for some sort of I.D." He said "Some new, more rigid check system will be initiated--whatever's easiest for the bartender...
WHAT blew their rigid old minds most of all was that Pranksters, hippies, heads, looked so extraordinary. Something startling, the extraordinary introduced into the everyday, is in a way a definition of the prank. The hippies and what they did were like pepper on ice cream for the straight world...
...Profession. Not quite. Hesse's parents were Protestant missionaries, and so it was assumed that he would be a minister. At 14, however, the stultifying confinement of school sent him fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in Swabia. Unable to find a meaning in his life, unhappy with a rigid German society that seemed to crush his artistic sensibilities, he tried to commit suicide. His parents responded by sending him first to a faith healer, then to a school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience...