Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the rigor of their studies and the dearth of diversion in pious Boston, students still managed to exercise their time-honored right to cut classes...
...possible contrasts are many. Representing the best in American secondary education, the independent preparatory school sacrifices the natural social atmosphere of the high school to achieve a high degree of academic discipline and rigor. The Exeter "round table" system, with a faculty member holding discussions with ten or twelve students, is one of the finest products of secondary education, but this small student-faculty ratio is possible only because of a multi-million dollar gift from Edward S. Harkness. In most of America's public schools, the unwillingness of communities to submit to higher taxes keeps school budgets...
...values of participation in varsity athletics are many and diverse. Football supposedly "builds character" by subjecting its communicants to the rigor and toughness of a highly competitive kind of activity. Crew fosters team-work. Baseball teaches alertness. Fencing develops poise....But one thing that often gets lost in the shuffle is the old-fashioned idea of recreation...
...Nations Special Committee on Hungary demanded assurances that the Hungarian patriots would be tried "under the highest humanitarian standards." Hungary's Chief Public Prosecutor Geza Szenasi gave Hungary's reply. Said he: "After martial law was repealed, some people expected that there would be a lessening of rigor. These expectations are without real foundation. The slogan, 'Let us make peace among us,' is a siren song. Such lukewarmness favors the enemy. Tolerance and understanding will be shown only to those who were misled by our enemies...
...They say that rock 'n' roll is dead." He motioned about the audience. "Some wake--or maybe it's just sustained rigor mortis...