Word: rigidness
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BACK IN THE old days, when interhouse was interdicted, the rules made good old sense. No one on campus could eat at anyone else's House unless they were invited, visitors were put on a guest list and had to be sponsored to sit down. Rigid, but civilized...
...understand the significance of the negritude movement, one must understand how Cesaire succeeded in expressing revolutionary ideas in the rigid structure of the French language. Cesaire's skill with the language has provoked many people to conclude that his poems are merely intellectual word games, but the play of words and rhythms is precisely one of the ways Cesaire infuses French with the elements of negritude. In "Batouque," the title word is like the clap of hands, regularly punctuating the phrases as clapping in a chant. The words tumble forth and build to a feverish pitch that is drilled into...
...place of the new rigid policy, we urge the College to adopt the "golden rule" recommendation policy under which tutors are encouraged to include any and all information they themselves would like to see in an evaluation. This policy, already in place at the Medical School, offers a sensible alternative to indiscriminate tattling that holds potentially serious consequences for the student in question...
Rather than delegating responsibility to the men in the field, Glenn until recently had reserved the final say on all strategy decisions to himself; some aides have attributed the campaign's early disorganization to this rigid centralization of administration...
...name and allowed to speak about their work. It is an effective technique. It tells the worker that the company has confidence in him and is proud to let him represent the product he makes. Nothing is worse for morale than the feeling that your job is so rigid and standardized that you are eminently replaceable. If the commercials, had instead shown Lee lacocca standing in front of a Chrysler saying. "The buck stops with me, if this car isn't built right, I'm personally responsible," Chrysler workers would have greeted it with beer bottles the first time...