Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorts of objects. That catalogue, cut up by its discoverer to make new configurations of its images, was a mother lode of modern art, and the collages Ernst extracted from it, like The Horse, He's Sick (1920), have never been equaled in their ironic intensity, formal rigor and erotic strangeness...
Vegetarians and feminists will not be pleased. Neither will readers who, while granting Ardrey the run of his special territory, require more rigor with their speculation. He frequently exhibits what might be called the rhetorical imperative. For example: "Are the qualities that we regard as uniquely human the consequences of being human beings, or have we evolved as human beings because of the earlier evolution of qualities that we regard as uniquely human?" This need to impose a dramatic unity on unimaginable lengths of time can also lead to inconsistencies. Ardrey says at one point that science has failed...
Freer Sex. The clergymen still turned out by the Big Five, says the report, go through training that has lost much of its onetime scholarly rigor. Elective courses have proliferated as the schools try to please students with incoherent vocational goals. At the same time, language requirements and basic required courses in the Bible, church history and doctrine have vanished. Students learn a little about a lot, but never master any one religious tradition. The schools provide "general education for those interested in a diffuse variety of religious studies, personal quests for the meaning of life, social activism and pastorally...
Against the Bruins, Harvard had a case of the three-week layoff blues, but nothing short of rigor mortis can justify losses to a Brown team that entered the contest with a 3-11 record...
...Revel's view, Communism does not evolve; it only makes strategic adjustments. "Stalinism is the essence of Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...