Word: rigor
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Intellectual Rigor...
...most chic of the city's progressive schools. Since it opened in 1919, Dalton has let children set their own pace through a curriculum rich in art and music. In the post-Sputnik 1960s, though, Dalton's board joined the national clamor for more academic rigor and became ever more eager for a school that could push children into high-prestige colleges. To tighten up, the board of trustees picked a stubborn new headmaster in 1964. As it turns out, Donald Barr may now be too stubborn to survive...
...break out of this Hollywood-derived rigor, most apparent in French Can Can, Renoir tried in the sixties to free actors again from the false god of the camera. Le Dejeuner sur I'Herbe (1959) is an experiment in theatrical anarchy; completely anti-naturalistic, it throws together absolutely irreconcilable acting styles with frightening abandon. The more naturalistic masterpiece The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1960) was shot from several angles at once so that each scene could be played integrally, not broken down shot by shot. Paradoxically, this shooting method gave the cutter more control than ever over the action...
...from well between the two. For the past six months, in Chinese-language broadcasts over Radio Moscow and "Radio Peace and Progress," the Soviet propaganda outlet for the Far East, Russia has relentlessly attacked the Maoist regime for everything from its Viet Nam policy to its intellectual rigor mortis. Two weeks before the river protocol was signed, Radio Moscow attacked Peking for "cutting down relations with socialist countries while broadening contacts with imperialist countries." What apparently bothered Moscow most was the fact that China's trade with its former ideological allies has dropped from almost $3 billion...
More serious is the argument that discipline and rigor are essential to the primary business of the military: preparing men to kill and to endure the personal danger of death. Nearly all the legendary armies of history have been harshly trained and regimented. The model is ancient Sparta, whose youths spent 23 years, including their wedding nights, in soldiers' barracks and could be fined merely for showing...