Word: rigorous
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There was at first a certain shivery merriment, a sense of shared rigor. "For a few hours," E.B. White once wrote of extreme cold's onset, "all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive." But as the cold settled in, White's "clear and congenial task" proved too much for some of the frail and the elderly, for luckless travelers exposed for too long a time to the bite of winter. By week's end more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body...
...course, its effect is the reverse of irony; one cannot have irony without rigor. Instead, it turns into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes
William E. Hassan, acting president of BWH, said yesterday an environmental study completed by the firm of HMM Associates as well as approval of MATEP's operation by the Masschusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering should demonstrate that downwash is harmless. But Jerome Aaron, MHPC's attorney, questioned the rigor and method of both the private and state examinations...
...Mammon and Cassandra could be heard muttering their dire prophecies along Shubert Alley. Mammon said that no sane person would pay the unprecedented price of $100 a ticket. Cassandra moaned that 8½ hours in a seated position, with only a one-hour dinner break, was a spartan rigor that no human frame could endure. (Agreed Socialite C.Z. Guest: "The only way I could sit still for that length of time would be on a horse...
...conservatives, the real problem is not political activism but the loss of discipline and intellectual rigor that set in during the experimental '60s. At that time, many younger Jesuits were influenced as much by the radical politics of Antiwar Activist Father Daniel Berrigan as they were by the society's venerable manual, Spiritual Exercises. As Catholic Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University sees it, a "self-probing, inward-looking, almost narcissistic" mentality has crept into the order today. Liberals contend that they are only trying to do what Jesuits have always done: make the church...