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Word: rigorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sculpture entitled Dawn 's Wedding-the negative reversal of Moon Garden, every shape blanched and fully visible under the chalky candor of the white paint so that it seems ethereal and removed rather than dense and beckoning-afford an extremely satisfying sculptural experience. They are full of mystery, rigor and the calmly detailed expressive power that her own. - Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tsarina of Total Immersion | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...According to Warren D. Goldfarb '69, head tutor of the concentration, the almost complete abscence of courses in modern continental and Eastern philosophy reflects the conscious decision of the department to sacrifice breadth in the coverage of diverse philosophies. Instead the department attempts to focus with more intensity and rigor on the central issues that preoccupy philosophers today: the modern analytic branches of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: A Major by Any Other Name | 4/24/1980 | See Source »

...officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives unspecified (awe? fear? doubt?), withdrew her identification. Judge Grabau, although white, displayed the same rigor as Judge Elam: he summoned counsel to the bench, pronounced Mr. Ezera innocent, and thereby expunged the arrest from his record. Your reporter describes this as "the end of the play" but the protagonist still insists that skin of a different color would have kept him out of court. Permit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Parody of Justice | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

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