Word: rigor
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...willy-nilly herd students into a course many of them would not like. Far from being an antidote, this sort of compulsion only makes indifference more resolute, evasion more determined. In addition, weak enthusiasms, which presumably the Faculty wishes to strengthen, have a way o dying under such paternal rigor. Only those interested at the start would be sure to apply themselves enough to learn anything permanently and they would probably take the courses anyway. The Faculty has braved this facet of haman nature but once within my memory, in setting up General Education. Surely, G. E. is interesting...
...finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was keeping up his record of an aphorism a day. To New York Publisher Dorothy Schiff, at the height of the convention tiredness, he had said: "intellectual rigor mortis...
Many students; wanted a chance to do creative writing. "For others our rigor was greater than they were willing to accept," Martin said. "However," he continued, "I think that those who did accept it, whether they have the talent or not, found that it strengthened their style. The ones who most resented it were the ones who most needed...
Leonardo's name conjures up a heavy-browed, sad, hawk-eyed man, with a straight nose, mouth firm to the point of cruelty, and a flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack...
...institution," said the dissenting opinion, "the electoral college suffered atrophy almost indistinguishable from rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and manipulation ... To abolish it and substitute direct election of the President ... would seem ... a gain for simplicity and integrity of our governmental processes...