Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading to the victory of democratic meritocracy here. He goes on to detail the rise of the student--and to a lesser extent faculty--antagonism toward meritocracy, which he says culminated in the growth of student radicalism. He argues that students discontent forced the University to abate the curricular rigor with which it had previously enforced its internal meritocratic policies, and he describes the simultaneous deterioration of student-faculty interactions. So the question remains: Will Harvard be able in the future to restore the common faith in meritocracy...
...female imagination is hardly a new topic for comment. In chauvinist circles, women's imagination is usually spoken of as a charming commodity, fanciful and flighty, and lacking in rigor. The "woman's point of view" is considered to yield delightful and unexpected (because illogical) associations which form a fine complement to the more dependable logic of men. In feminist circles, the nature of the female imagination has been debated on more egalitarian grounds. There was a time when feminists regarded as counter-insurgent any effort to posit an imagination different from man's. More recently, however, women have come...
...wheeler-dealer," says Professor Robert Wellman. "But he is a very poor administrator." Adds Professor Albert Anthony: "He's a P.T. Barnum type. He knew damn well he couldn't make the school rank in the top two or three in a few years by scholarly rigor. So he went into all of the innovations that were hot in the late '60s -all the things that were the beneficiaries of federal money...
...that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. At first, Rockburne's Golden Section Paintings look homely: coarse cloth, stained creosote brown and traversed by lines in blue builder's chalk. But they are suffused by a remarkable tension and rigor, conferred by the intelligence with which she manipulates her schemes of proportion...
...rigor of Malle's portrait of the youth, in fact, makes the movie a little distant. Malle was not after the kind of shattering catharsis that Vittorio de Sica, working with similar material, achieved in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Lucien is understandable but not especially likable, a state of affairs that solves the film's intellectual problems even as it raises dramatic ones...