Word: rigidness
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...heart-stopping performance of “Steps in the Street” from Martha Graham’s classic anti-war piece “Chronicle.” The dancers, dressed in full-length black garments designed by Graham herself in 1936, proceeded on-stage with rigid shuffles that were accented by the absence of music. An eerie, militaristic theme suddenly blared out, signaling the dancers to cover the stage with repeated, mechanical stag leaps that were almost inhuman in their unfeeling execution. A single woman (notably portrayed by Conservatory student Jessica Klein), stood center stage...
...done,” Lee said, “that’s going to come from the men.” Sharing his own experience with dating, Lee admitted that he used to be shy with women until he was able to break out of the rigid Asian male stereotypes. “I had to be taught how to talk to women,” he said. Jeremy N. Tran ’09 said after the event that Lee made “some valid points,” but overall, but that most people were already...
Ultimately, the First World War put an end to Wilson's progressive juggernaut; he won the war only to lose the peace. Fortunately, Obama seems unlikely to run aground in quite the same way. While Wilson proved too rigid to negotiate effectively with a postwar Republican Congress, Obama has already made a point of advertising his bipartisan intentions, and his skills at persuasion can hardly be overestimated...
...dirty, dangerous time but also a weirdly innocent one. Slavery exists--a humane farmer named Jacob Vaark accepts Florens as payment for a bad debt--but A Mercy is not precisely a novel about slavery. When Florens enters Jacob's household, she finds not a rigid caste system based on race but a fluid, funky multicultural arrangement that includes not only Florens but also Jacob's wife, a Native American maid, two indentured servants and an orphan foundling. Their relationships with one another are flexible, and race is just one of any number of things that define them...
...shifts in opposite directions are a result of the effort to bring this year’s policies into more rigid compliance...