Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ride? It was the result of happenstance rather than design. President Truman, starting out to fight deflation on V-J day, had naively assumed that the U.S. could have free collective bargaining and rigid price controls at the same time. He had relaxed wage controls. This put every major industrial dispute squarely up to the White House, where labor usually got what it wanted...
...Pereira never so much as peeked out of the window. They compared their art to music, which seldom has tangible subject matter either; talked about "reverence for the materials" (meaning paint and canvas, which could be controlled) instead of nature, which was too big and too confusing. They invented rigid, severely pointless patterns...
...Canterbury, but he is too solid a churchman to make that mistake himself. * His unerring knowledge of the rules and his uncompromising adherence to them have been the admiration of his close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look something of a prim curmudgeon...
...have far to look for the reasons behind the increased emigration: 1) relaxation of the wartime Canadian law requiring a labor permit to leave the country; 2) easing of exchange restrictions on taking money out of Canada; 3) increased urban unemployment in the Dominion; 4) continuation of rigid Dominion wage controls, and higher prevailing pay scales south of the border...
...natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful family group grows rigid with reluctant tyranny, ugly with fear and deceit. The beloved and charming home becomes, for some members of the family, a place of captivity, distaste and boredom. Finally the crime and suicide of the youngest child brings the repentance and ultimate religious conversion of another...