Word: rigidness
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...throw-away attitude our society has acquired, for most people, includes animals, too. Contrary to the message in the ad, there are other ways of thinking, searching and feeling. The more rigid we are about maintaining an anti-animal, anti-life stance, the more we ourselves will suffer. Christine Jackson People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
...falling--spinning now--as my rigid body knifed through the air at crazy angles...
Anyone who still believes in rigid divisions of importance between craft and fine art -- pottery and sculpture, for instance -- could do worse than visit the show by the California ceramist Ken Price, now on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Artists have been making sculpture out of baked clay since the dawn of time -- mud was God's medium for fashioning Adam -- and yet, in America, there lingers an irrational feeling that "real" sculpture ought to be made of steel, or bronze, or stone, or wood: anything but clay, in fact...
...playing field at Harvard is just as rigid, bureaucratic and institutionalized as the American government. In fact, Harvard is even older and more entrenched in tradition. Ignatiev can't shift the rules mid-argument when discussing the placement of the dining services budget...
Classical music is simply not as homogeneous as its name implies. That is why you can like Stravinsky and hate Handel, or the other way around. It is why two musicians can perform the same piece in two totally different ways. Despite its rigid appearance, the world of classical music is entirely free and open...