Word: rigor
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Both Signac and Seurat strove to give a noble, architectural permanence to fleeting effects by analyzing shape and light in terms of dots of color. They wanted rigor and system, not Impressionist spontaneity. Each man influenced the other; Seurat was the greater artist, but it was a real partnership. Thus it was Signac who persuaded Seurat, and not the other way round, to purify his color by banishing earth pigments from his palette. Later Signac would give up on the dot, using larger spots in a sort of mosaic. Under the influence of Turner, whose luminous watercolors and oils...
...best efforts, I have yet to find a way of uncrossing and recrossing my legs without at least partially flashing an interviewer (note that, perhaps, this explains why the wearing of skirts is encouraged). But, even putting my petty complaints aside, even exercising the highest level of analytic rigor, I still cannot figure out what wearing a skirt has to do with my qualifications...
...with complex issues in the policy school,” says James H. Fowler ’92, a fourth-year government graduate student. “Kennedy School students are able to communicate, but there’s an ad hoc-ness they have, a lack of scientific rigor...
...people who created KSG,” Putnam says. “It was like any rivalry between two siblings. Government thought the Kennedy School was an upstart getting pushed by Bok [that] had pizzazz but not depth. It was a conflict between the advocates of relevance and rigor...
...junior faculty counter that FAS’s ivory tower traditionalism prevents its students and faculty from appreciating either the quality or the rigor of the interdisciplinary work done on JFK Street...