Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these criticisms are undoubtedly legitimate, but we Cantabrigians should not be too smug about the lack of intellectual rigor at the "hot" university du jour. That is because, for all the hoopla that accompanies the entrance of the Harvard Class of '86 into the company of educated men and women, many of us will graduate today knowing that our Harvard education is in large part a big inside joke...
Given this lack of intellectual and administrative rigor, only the most directed and self-sufficient of students are able to maintain the drive that propelled them into the Yard four years ago. Other students find themselves unwilling to do their best work for courses for fear of rebuff; they know that they will receive largely the same grade in any case...
...nominating committee called ART "the most vibrant and exciting theatre in New England today," Sabinson said, and praised ART director Robert S. Brustein for his "intellectual rigor" and the imaginativeness of the company's repertoire...
Even his passing, in 1969, came in the nick of time. The American architect Robert Venturi had just published his influential rejection of less-is-more Miesian modernism ("Less is a bore," Venturi punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City...
...There's a camaraderie that develops somewhat like the army, but it's a positive experience," says Tangney, explaining that the participants develop "a pretty close core--especially among members of the can groups because they live together." For Tangney, both "the rigor of the content and the relationship of the people to each other" made the program special. Despite the rigor, the AMP was still fun because it created a setting where "people with real world experience were getting back into an academic setting," able to study how the business world should ideally work and compare it with knowledge...