Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever Mlle. Boulanger speaks, speaks about music; whenever she speaks about music, she speaks of discipline, rigor, conscientiousness. "There is no substitute for discipline in music," she says to students. "You must go back to the basic concept of discipline in this art, and the more engrossed you become in the history of music and strict academic form, the more free you will be as you compose later on." Again, she says: "With young composers detail is infinitely important and few pay enough attention to it." Her main concern in teaching is "to develop the conscience of a musician, which...
...parked car, and her boy friend is properly distraught. He first tells of his eternal devotion to her corpse. She answers from Above that he must concentrate on her soul because the dead body is sure to lose its appeal. Not quite convinced, the boy soon gets the "Rigor Mortis Blues." Finally, he appeals to God to let him join the girl in heaven. God, always receptive to realiable pleas from teenagers, nods...
...assumes that education need not lose its rigor merely by becoming less Germanic, it is evident enough that a good tutorial program can at least attempt to deal with a vast number of these problems. At the moment, perhaps, nothing can be done; the departure for England of a Chairman who expects to resume his post next fall has left the Department in limbo. Yet the announcement restricting tutorial, while it is not a central issue, has fallen on this community with unusual force. Perhaps it can help to persuade the Faculty that the Gill program and the tutorial system...
Riesman's informality does not disturb these particularly; indeed, several essays are devoted to defending his style and format. But as formidable assemblage dissects the Crowd concept by concept and definition by definition, this spectre of formal rigor re-Words like values, social character, social power are steadily and carefully redefined throughout the book, and author after author sets up a framework to discuss American society...
Eichmann listened to the summation with twitching eyes and hands in his lap, the fingertips lightly touching each other. The rocklike immobility of his body gave spectators the impression that rigor mortis had already set in. This week Eichmann's West German attorney. Dr. Robert Servatius, will base his final plea for the defense on the question of the court's jurisdiction and impartiality...