Word: rigidness
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...both during the semester and during reading period, in large part because it is not the objective of college to inspire such focus. The raw amount of reading, writing, problem sets we have assigned to us indicates that the emphasis in college lies on quantity and method, not quality. Rigid paper deadlines, which are an otherwise meaningless convention, illustrate this point...
Those leaders you've named so far in your TIME 100 list of achievers in business, government and the arts probably wouldn't give your list a second look. They broke through the rigid barriers everyone else said existed and wouldn't accept the idea that you can name the Top 100 of anything. But go ahead, make your selections. I guarantee that those who make the TIME list in 2100 won't be thinking along your lines. DAVID ROSEN Buffalo...
Imagine that you are a young person at the height of your career--specifically, a career which demands physical energy and vocal skill. Now imagine that one day you looked down at your left arm and found it shaking uncontrollably. Imagine that you felt your muscles becoming rigid and your gait hesitant and unsteady. Imagine that you had no idea how to stop these symptoms. Imagine that a doctor told you that you have Parkinson's, a disease usually associated with (but by no means limited to) the elderly. In the later stages of the disease, communication becomes nearly impossible...
Different kids will have different styles when it comes to money, but teaching them how to use it doesn't have to mean imposing rigid rules. When children like Ryan, Giselle and Danni have their own cash to consider, the good news is that they tend to impose those rules themselves...
...plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does not understand this, the Congolese word batiza means...