Word: rigor
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...rigor of his instruction, and for all the surface gruffness of his manner, no student who dared to approach the scholar with a question was ever turned away without an answer...
...main difference between the Mathematics and Applied Mathemathics programs," Birkhoff said, "is that students learn to prove theorems in math, but will learn to use them in Applied Math, will all due respect to rigor...
...vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
...Three schools and more scholarships for gifted poor boys. Bright scholars have driven out dull scions. As one result, says Hawes, the country is getting "a new set of socially desirable colleges that has some of the flavor of the old upper-class institutions, but less of their academic rigor." More important, the competition is upgrading society itself. Says Hawes: "It could not be said of any period up through the 1940s that most young members of the upper class had to pursue rigorous intellectual training before they could take responsible stations in life. However, this is all too true...
...viewers even more. Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations of Modern...