Word: rigidness
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...wholesome bosom of Kansas but in the cold heart of Stalin's Soviet Union? Wearing a hammer and sickle on his chest instead of an S, Superman befriends Stalin and succeeds him when the Soviet leader dies. (Stalin, Millar notes astutely, is Russian for "man of steel.") With his rigid notions of right and wrong, telescopic sight and super-hearing that can pick up a counter-revolutionary conversation half a world away, Superman becomes a terrifying global dictator, a nightmare fusion of Nietzsche's Ubermensch and Orwell's Big Brother. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, superpower corrupts--well, even more...
...choices open to our undergraduates as it prepares them to be independent, knowledgeable, and creative individuals.” The way to do that, the report concludes, is to replace what Summers The Elder termed in last year’s Commencement address “an excessively rigid notion of the Core” with a more flexible distribution requirement...
Designing Harvard College Courses in this fashion will set them apart from both traditional departmental (and hierarchical) courses as well as those courses which were created under the impossibly vague (and rigid) backbone of the Core’s “approaches to knowledge.” Harvard College Courses in the sciences ought to repair that hole in the curriculum—which the Core never managed to fill—reserved for courses that challenge and examine the techniques, assumptions and methods in the sciences...
Soskin compares Hedda to a Swiss watch, and one cannot entirely deny this claim. In its rigid timing, its assured performances, its clear design, the show displays all the marks of an experienced director entirely confident in his own work—one who, like that celebrated timepiece of Switzerland, always knows when to expect the next tick. In other words, this is one hell of a Swiss watch—contrary to Soskin’s belief, its gears wouldn’t even know how to grind, much less churn. Simply put, Hedda Gabler...
...maps might be used to facilitate crimes, the Administration's "police state policy on encryption" was at odds with the Bill of Rights - an argument that foes of the Patriot Act might be surprised to hear from him now. President Clinton, he said, "is attempting to foist his rigid policy on the exceptionally fluid and fast-paced computer industry...