Word: rigidness
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DIED. Rudi Gernreich, 62, innovative Austrian-born fashion designer whose attempts to free women's clothing from rigid structure and the tyranny of French couture resulted in youthful, boldly colored, free-flowing styles such as tank dresses, miniskirts, the tank-top bathing suit, the see-through blouse and--most controversial--the topless bathing suit; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The 1964 strapped, topless suit sold 3,000 copies, outraged the Kremlin and the Vatican and afterward overshadowed the reputation he deserved for more influential work...
...people at not-so-well-established schools in Connecticut coastal communities claim that not a lot has changed in the intervening three-and-one-half centuries, calling Cambridge's Ivy institution "stodgy," even "rigid...
...Horacian swipes on Catholic dogma revolve around the childhood romance of two well-intentioned social misfits. Eddie (Russ Thacker), a self-professed late bloomer, struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...
...exchange is introducing many Chinese, for the first time, to a world far removed from the rigid hierarchy of the old dynastic China and the dated dogmas of Marxism. After a century of foreign humiliation and social iniquity, China in 1949 grabbed at Marxism as a panacea for national renewal. The medicine worked as a purgative but failed as a restorative. It is restoration that China now needs more than anything. After three decades of coercive utopian experimentation, a return to ethics, for three millenniums the unifying theme of Chinese culture, may help. Optimists will be warmed by an event...
...best alternative to Feldstein's "autocratic" ruling, according to the majority opinion, would force students (many of them freshmen) to choose between ideologically different sections in the first week of classes. The idea of students placing themselves in rigid ideological molds before they have the tools to make such an important decision is frightening. For even those students who have adequate knowledge to make a rational decision, is it part of Harvard liberal arts education to allow these students to surround themselves with ideologically similar people in the classroom...