Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less successful at attaining coherency. This failure caused him considerable anguish. It was primarily a personal trait against which he struggled and not a necessary consequence of his philosophic doctrine. One the contrary, James felt that the formal doctrine--over the long run--contained a theory of truth as rigorous as that of any positivist. But, in addition to the demand for rigor, it stresses man's freedom and ultimate moral responsibility. If it were not for his optimism, one might call James an existentialist. And the optimistic style did not come easily. With it James sought to encourage...
...Time Remembered. His movie performances have mainly been journeyman labors in poor films, with a few exceptions such as Look Back in Anger. His talents were wastefully poured into Game-lot, like a cataract into a thimble, but he was a more than magical king, giving a performance of rigor, charm, gaiety, melancholy, and controlled dash that made every audience fall in love with him. He was like a highly practiced
...lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means of learning at first-hand "the nature of scholarly inquiry: its rigor, its integrity, and its rewards...
...Range in a flight computed to be 991 miles long.* Jubilant Air Force officers pronounced the test "a success." But at the Pentagon, Skybolt's critics dourly contended that the missile was 100 miles off target, said the test would not save Skybolt. Declared one: "It was just rigor mortis setting...
...Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid...