Word: rigor
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...contends in his first book, The Challenge of Change (Little, Brown), this popular image of Republicanism should be of concern to all Americans, for the two-party system is at stake. "Not to be alarmed about the status of the Republican Party," he writes, is a "symptom of impending rigor mortis...
Robert Thomas, in his discussion of the immunity of members of Congress, disproves the old idea that legal writers make up for dry writing style by logical rigor. He is both dry and illogical. Not only is his defense of congressional immunity unconvincing, but he ignores the deficiencies of legislative self-regulation: the un-likelihood that courts would throw socialists out of a legislature, as the New York legislature did in the 1920's; or Negroes out, as the Georgia legislature did this year...
...wrote, "and I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men." He approached the problems of expressing that perfection, even down to the microscopic depiction of a wart. In his Four Books on Human Proportion, he analyzed anatomy with all the rigor of Euclidean geometry. Yet with the pricking of his pens and burins, he tried to capture all the sensual volumes that the Italian sculptors revealed in marble with the deft chipping of their chisels...
...Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the search for rigor is partly expressed by two phrases: "from follows function" and "the human scale." In this issue of Connection Benjamin Thompson, chairman of the Architecture Department, suggests a purposeful departure from "artistic" designing towards an "anonymous architecture," based principally on the uses and setting of a building. He uses the work of his own firm, The Architects' Collaborative, to illustrate the proposal. Thompson defines TAC's team style (as seen in the Geological Labs on Oxford St.) as "design for other humans than ourselves"--the opposite of "egotism and upstage-itis...
...original a topic as negritude, but David Levey and Yoran Ben-Porath manage to say original things about it. The other contributor, Andrew Grey-stoke, wanders aimlessly about the subject, finally admitting that he really has no firm position. Levey and Ben-Porath, conversely, attack the problem with the rigor and hard-nosedness of their chosen discipline, economics. Their articles display an impressive tightness, derived from a controlled tension between deep conviction and and an even deeper respect for logic and evidence...