Word: rigidities
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...four-year rule, stabilizing the faculty and making sure the best writing teachers don't enter Expos with one foot out the door. The new director should create an atmosphere that encourages experimentation, allowing star teaching talents like senior preceptor Gordon Harvey to innovate, and abolishing rigid requirements like the current four-essay rule...
...program for H.M.S. Pinafore describes the show as "an entirely original nautical comic opera." "Nautical" is the only original item here, for if you've seen one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, you've seen them all. Take the beloved feel-good plot of protagonists overcoming rigid British class divisions through happy fate, play it out in an exotic new location each time, and voila! You've got instant rollicking G&S humor. Luckily, it's an attractive formula and one that is well-mastered by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players...
...cinematically brief, but the scene changes are long and noisy. Both acts end with poignant, diminuendo remarks that plainly do not strike audiences as a climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...
China's leap forward is still hampered by its rigid politics -- and the prospect that the system could soon change dramatically. The man who was not there in Seattle but who figuratively sat in on all the meetings was Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader and chief reformer. Deng, now 89 and very frail, is China's last emperor -- the tail end of the charismatic generation of military and political leaders who held power alone, and he is not likely to rule China much longer...
Deng says, "To get rich is glorious." That is undoubtedly true for people like Li and Wang, but for the vast Chinese nation getting rich is a mixed blessing. The rigid discipline of the party and its apparatus is slipping, and crime is on the increase. Corruption -- payoffs and connections -- is the rule at every level. Wealth is growing unevenly: very fast in the special zones, in big cities and along the seaboard, but slowly in the great agricultural interior. Both rural and urban incomes have increased significantly in the past 15 years, but farmers still average less than half...