Word: rigidities
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...there is tragedy in this development, it is not only that millions of Americans were now separated from exposure to such creators as Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Verdi, whom they had enjoyed in various formats for much of the 19th century, but also that the rigid cultural categories, once they were in place, made it so difficult for so long for so many to understand the value and importance of the popular art forms that were all around them...
MacDougall now maintains that his tongue was firmly in cheek when he implied in his articles that he had pursued a secret agenda. The point of the article, he says, was to debunk radical misconceptions about the daily press. "Rigid- minded right-wingers and rigid-minded left-wingers have a lot in common," he adds. "I wanted to knock down the conspiracy theories by pointing out that individual reporters can get across a lot of uncomfortable truths to the public...
...During the Tet offensive in Saigon, the police chief's arm in profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...example is Britain, with its rigid class structure, its powerful unions, its state-owned industrial dinosaurs, its enormous governmental bureaucracy. Its precipitous postwar decline took place precisely as it was shedding its empire. Thatcher engineered Britain's dramatic renewal in the 1980s, when it had one of the fastest growth rates in Europe, by going after not defense spending but the sclerosis that had set into the system: authoritarian unions, failing state-owned industries, a paternalistic bureaucracy and, by example and rhetoric, the British class system itself...
Chastened by failures and feuds, struggling to fathom the boom-and-borrow Reagan years, economists jettison rigid formulas and move toward a more pragmatic philosophy...