Word: rigorousity
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Surprisingly enough--for above all, he is remarkable for his rigorous commitment to standards--Bok in the course of Universities and the Future of America shows himself to have fallen short of his own model.
As true as this may be, though, Bok's book suffers as well as profits from his rigorous scholarly approach. This is clearly evident in the writing itself, which, while not overly long-winded, is dry and almost entirely free of the anecdotes that spice the theorizing of such educational...
In each case, after undergoing the rigorous process of qualifying for NEA money -- and building it into their budgets -- the arts organizations turned the funds down. They could not tolerate the stipulation that Congress added to the NEA's 1990 appropriations: no funded work may involve obscenity, "including, but not...
Academically Rigorous
Hand him a football and he'll pass. Give him a bar exam and he fumbles. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," said JOHN F. KENNEDY JR., 29, last week when he got word that he'd failed New York State's bar exam for the second time...