Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities this fall, in loco parentis is suffering from rigor mortis...
Another question under investigation, he said, in the rigor and fairness of grading at Harvard: what causes the difference between a tough course and an easy...
...contends in his first book, The Challenge of Change (Little, Brown), this popular image of Republicanism should be of concern to all Americans, for the two-party system is at stake. "Not to be alarmed about the status of the Republican Party," he writes, is a "symptom of impending rigor mortis...
Robert Thomas, in his discussion of the immunity of members of Congress, disproves the old idea that legal writers make up for dry writing style by logical rigor. He is both dry and illogical. Not only is his defense of congressional immunity unconvincing, but he ignores the deficiencies of legislative self-regulation: the un-likelihood that courts would throw socialists out of a legislature, as the New York legislature did in the 1920's; or Negroes out, as the Georgia legislature did this year...
...wrote, "and I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men." He approached the problems of expressing that perfection, even down to the microscopic depiction of a wart. In his Four Books on Human Proportion, he analyzed anatomy with all the rigor of Euclidean geometry. Yet with the pricking of his pens and burins, he tried to capture all the sensual volumes that the Italian sculptors revealed in marble with the deft chipping of their chisels...