Word: rigidness
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Married life has forced Scheper to put himself on a rigid schedule since he has to be athlete, student, husband and make some money all at the same time. While Gigi, a licensed nurse, works full time at Cambridge Eye Associates, he works 15 hours a week before classes with Chet Stone, the Harvard equipment manager. In between classes he tries to sneak into the library for some studying ("So Gigi and I can be home together at night"), make time to meet his wife for lunch, go to football practice and come home to Peabody Terrace to have dinner...
...have gained a little stature in the past ten months. Thomas B. Silver has suggested in the American Scholar that Coolidge has been victimized in part by Schlesinger's own bias. "Imagine that the next five years are characterized by peace, national calm, unprecedented inflation-free prosperity, and rigid executive integrity," writes Silver, suggesting that was the nature of the Coolidge era. Surely that is the man Ronald Reagan sees when he glances at the Cabinet Room wall, and the man Ronald Reagan wants...
...meet." Strict quotas and busing imply that the percentages of minorities in every school or profession should be exactly the same as those in the general population. And that, Barone says, is an unrealistic demand because "people don't distribute themselves in a random fashion." Instead, Barone thinks less rigid programs--like open housing--would offer more benefits to both the majority and minorities. Saying that "most Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of excluding anyone because of race," Barone says a renewed push to end housing discrimination would both appeal to free market economists and address long-standing inequities...
...AUTHOR FAILS to realize that his rigid portrait of ethnic America is as much a morality play as the others he wishes to refute. He implies throughout that the pasts of the different ethnic groups determine the groups' definitions of their roles and ambitions. Sowell can not explain why these traits and behavior patterns remain unadulterated by the vastly different society immigrant groups found themselves in. There is much in Ethnic America, but Sowell is too satisfied by his conclusion: that the men who have made America have been masters of their own fate, and of little else. He hesitates...
With this jarring first image, the current production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera captures the cardinal principle of epic theater: a rigid separation between the stage and spectator. This separation, or alienation, prevents the spectator from identifying with the characters. Brechtian theater presents man for scrutiny, to entertain and instruct the spectator. Didactic in intent, it forces him to observe, make decisions, and act on them. Under R.J. Cutler's direction, Threepenny Opera shines with all the power and excitement inherent in Epic theater...