Word: rigor
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...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...
...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...
...Department's opponents want to "depoliticize" it and restructure it so that Afro's academic quality and rigor are equal to the other departments. While denying that his department is inferior, Guinier contends that to impose the standards of other concentrations on Afro would be tantamount to denying in policy differences which exist in fact...
ROTC final exams, still on file in Lamont Library, offer evidence of the lack of rigor and scholarly detachment which the Faculty committees saw as necessary for Arts and Sciences teaching...
...Stream. The novel, published well after his death, has no merit whatsoever. It did, however, prove two damning points: Hemingway, suffering an unconquerable stasis, was over the hill; his widow, suffering financially, needed the money. Like Hemingway's, John Berryman's Recovery is an unfinished first draft, a rigor mortis novel. But unlike Islands, Recovery maintains respectability...