Word: rigor
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...murky wavelets, the head has a dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...
...well rested now, and when the going gets tough I can think back on all those fish I caught. On God and politics-- Distance running is the same as religion. Justice will triumph. On last year's captain Bill Okerman-- Okerman is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis. On two top Northeastern runners, the Flora twins--You know, I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray...
...conservative line. Reagan's followers will undoubtedly keep up that pressure throughout the campaign, if Ford carries the Republican banner. And if Reagan defies the odds and walks off with the nomination, the nation will hear a set of economic views that have rarely been voiced with such rigor...
...religious falloff, certain Catholics found it painfully real. "Vatican II amazed me," wrote Author Doris Grumbach in the Critic, "because it raised the possibility of more answers than one, of gray areas, of a private world of conscience and behavior ... But like all places in human experience of rigor and rule ... once the window was opened, everything came under question. No constants remained, no absolutes, and the church became for me a debatable question ... I still cling to the Gospels, to Christ and some of his followers as central to my life, but the institution no longer seems important...
...below that average. But these days he discovers that the average in his courses is a "B,' or a "B-plus" and that grades like "D" and "F" have largely disappeared. Guiltily he feels that he has failed to give sufficiently difficult examinations or to mark them with adequate rigor. He fails to understand that the bell-shaped curve fits only a representative population and that, by definition, the undergraduates at our better colleges and universities are not representative. Indeed, we have admissions offices to make sure that our students are a carefully selected elite. Rarely does an Ivy League...