Word: rigid
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...exchange is introducing many Chinese, for the first time, to a world far removed from the rigid hierarchy of the old dynastic China and the dated dogmas of Marxism. After a century of foreign humiliation and social iniquity, China in 1949 grabbed at Marxism as a panacea for national renewal. The medicine worked as a purgative but failed as a restorative. It is restoration that China now needs more than anything. After three decades of coercive utopian experimentation, a return to ethics, for three millenniums the unifying theme of Chinese culture, may help. Optimists will be warmed by an event...
...best alternative to Feldstein's "autocratic" ruling, according to the majority opinion, would force students (many of them freshmen) to choose between ideologically different sections in the first week of classes. The idea of students placing themselves in rigid ideological molds before they have the tools to make such an important decision is frightening. For even those students who have adequate knowledge to make a rational decision, is it part of Harvard liberal arts education to allow these students to surround themselves with ideologically similar people in the classroom...
...back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week. "I want to get off a 13- to 14-ft. vault." After years of using rigid steel poles, Richards must adjust his skills to the new, springy fiberglass type, so he has been taking coaching tips from his son Brandon, 18, the top U.S. high school vaulter. "It's so different you wouldn't believe it," says Dad. "It's like going from straight tumbling...
...University is not unalterably opposed to a public policy vehicle of inclusionary zoning, says Jacqueline O'Neil', the University's assistant vice president for state and community affairs, "but what has been proposed is very rigid and stringent...
...University is not unalterably opposed to the public policy vehicle of inclusionary zoning for the construction of low- and moderate- income housing," Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant vice president for state and community affairs, said yesterday," but what has been proposed is very rigid, stringent and not well thought...