Word: rigor
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Although the staff does not say it outright, it implies that Wolf's work is pornographic. Definitions of pornography are tied to community standards. The Harvard community is an atypical one. Most people here are capable of analytical rigor in dissecting complexities. By pulling selected pieces from the ongoing exhibit at Dudley, the community was denied the chance to make its own decision...
...They are wary of the "touchy" and "feely." Previous attempts by esteemed teachers such as Coles, Wiener Professor of Public Policy David T. Ellwood, and Wiener Professor of Social Policy Mary Jo Bain to establish a core class that includes public service have been rejected for lacking the academic rigor appropriate to a course at Harvard...
...Perez says he has been pleasantly surprised by the level of academic rigor in his Harvard courses...
...flag. The work's space is not deep, as the title might suggest, but shallow, like a bas-relief. You keep expecting the image to fly apart into formal incoherence, but it never does: it has the kind of control you see in great drivers or skaters, a supple rigor that seems to exist only on the edge of its own dissolution. One is tempted to say that Excavation is the last great Cubist painting, 30 years after Cubism petered out. All of De Kooning's relation to Picasso...
...would characterize his perspective as a combative spirituality," Ali says. "He brings a kind of rigor to his religiosity that leads...to activism...