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What the term "classical music" really means when used to identify a section in a record store or listings in a newspaper is music that is not other things--not jazz or rock or folk. But this distinction is not rigid. There are cases, like the Chronos Quartet or George Gershwin, that straddle several of these categories. The word classical is, at best, a shorthand term for a body of music that most people recognize but that nobody can define with absolute precision...
University regulations limit to two years the time a professor may be on unpaid leave. Bell argued yesterday that the regulations should not apply because his leave was not voluntary. "[My leave] has, rather, been coerced by the faculty's rigid adherence to obsolete credentialbased hiring," Bell said...
...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...
...Midwest is carved up into six mile square townships--a rigid form imposed on the land. Michael Martone, the editor of the collection, describes the Midwest as a quilt of these squares. In some parts the colors bleed, unwilling to submit to these lifeless, arbitrary lines; in others, the unnatural has become natural, and the imposed forms lend meaning to life...
Although several recruits on the reserve list spoke in response to the allegations of having criminal records, the DPA decision switched the focus of the discussion to the more rigid "new standards" that Anderson has vocally backed...