Word: rigor
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...performance proved that the Atlanta Symphony has the makings of a first-rate organization. Helped by a $765,000 budget (twice that of 1965), Shaw has already bolstered the ranks with additional musicians, instilled greater rigor and purpose into rehearsals, formed a new 60-voice chorus, and expanded the season to include chamber music, an offbeat "Connoisseur Series" and some light promenade concerts. His programs for the coming year balance Atlanta's traditionally romantic fare with more music from the baroque and classic periods as well as 20th century works ranging from Bartok to Gunther Schuller...
...holds two bloody daggers in one hand--again behind his back, where he can't see them. This also makes more plausible the lengthy ensuing dialogue with his wife before She spots the daggers; and she finds that she has to pry them loose from his grip as though rigor mortis had set in. So traumatic has the experience been for him that she finally has to yank and drag him off to wash his bloody hands...
...vote of confidence in, or congratulation for, homosexuality. Those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of loneliness, guilt, shame and other difficulties. The crucial question we have to answer is whether, in addition to these other disadvantages, they should also be made subject to the full rigor of the criminal...
...House of Representatives does not operate with the rigor of a court of law, and neither the decision to investigate Powell's eligibility nor the resolution that excluded him specified any reason why he might not be qualified. Basically, however, members cited Powell's misuse of Congressional funds and privileges, and the contempt charges arising from a libel suit against him in New York...
...want the requirement to provide students with a firm confrontation with a language, but not a destructive one," Monro explained. He said there "has been quite a switch in attitudes in the College" about the rigor with which the requirement should be observed...