Word: rigidness
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Conventional government intervention has largely failed, notably in the chaotic and counterproductive welfare system, which is at once too lax and too rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate...
...America possesses a special instrument of change and reform -- what might be called the civic crusade. These grass-roots movements about particular issues have repeatedly forced the more rigid political system to follow: in the fight against racial discrimination, the movement for women's equality, the drive for fair treatment of homosexuals, the environmental movement, the campaign against smoking and many others. Not everybody is comfortable with all these crusades and the rights they champion. But they represent an extraordinary American capacity to change perceptions and habits...
...even more intriguing framework within which to stage the play, Hill opts for a stark presentation suffused in its own bitterness. The director seems to strike a flat emotional pitch in all the players of this production, and most emotional nuances are, as a result, lost. In Betrayal, rigid staging unfortunately replaces audience interpretation with directorial determinism...
...student radicals, then-President Nathan M.Pusey '28 was a rigid reactionary who could not beforgiven for his decision to send in police tobreak up the student takeover of University Hallthe year before. In the eyes of many faculty andalumni, he was an unassertive, unimaginative manwho could not be counted on to take a stand andrestore Harvard to its educational mission...
...Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...