Word: rigidness
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...medical school at the University of California at Davis. Bakke, who claimed he was a victim of "reverse discrimination," had sued the university on the ground that he had been passed over in favor of less qualified minority applicants. The decision, issued in 1978, approved affirmative action but rejected rigid quotas based solely on race. This June, Bakke will graduate from Davis and move on to a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Bakke did not discuss his appointment with the press. Fellow class members, however, gave him the loudest cheer at the ceremony in which...
...part written as a never-relaxing alternation between grief and sexual passion, vctimizes her with its unplayability. Victor Cavallo as Adelfo, the worker-priest who feeds the pigs, also suffers from the flat script, which forces him to stay calm and distanced, his religious acceptance erecting a rigid, unbroken stoicism to block him from the audience. With such starkness, Bertolucci may be striving to create a modern morality play, but he has certainly not drawn real human beings...
Having failed previously to persuade the President that he should reduce the increase in defense spending and impose new taxes to lower the deficits, key advisers are not urging their boss to ease his rigid stance now. But without being disloyal, they are quietly prompting influential Republican and business leaders to make that case. So far, this campaign has had little effect. One problem is Reagan's charm. Observes one Senator about the persuaders: "They go in like tigers, but in the Oval Office they're pussycats...
...long, moving essay upon her return wrote the following: "When love enters into the substance of social relations, the connection of people to a single party need not be dehumanizing. Though it's second nature for me to suspect the government of a Communist country of being oppressive and rigid...(against) that abstract suspiciousness I must set (and be overruled by) what I actually saw when I was there--that the North Vietnamese genuinely love and admire their leaders; and, even more inconceivable to us, that the government loves the people. "So when she addresses Poland, when she declares that...
...unwaivering leadership-s President who did what he laid. Now Reagan's initiatives appear carelessly and irresponsibly constructed. The dissension among his staff and Republican leaders now make Reagan seem a simpleton, typecast and mean-spirited. During Reagan's honey moon with both press and Congress he could afford rigid and dogmatic complacency. The press's belated but welcome scrutiny can only help make him reconsider-or stick to his guns and face political stalemate or disaster...