Word: rigorousity
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Perhaps the most important of Greenspan's early gurus was Ayn Rand, the best-selling author of novels like Atlas Shrugged. Though Rand is now generally viewed as a pop philosopher who was neither a rigorous nor original thinker, she was fresh and influential when Greenspan met her in 1952...
Begin with Al Capone, from whom all factual and fictional descendants have learned some of the elements of style. But skip all that gangster-as-tragic- hero stuff. In Robert De Niro's grandly scaled performance he is demonically expansive, our first thug celebrity. And a man who in his...
In fact, Reed has thrived on challenges. He took two undergraduate degrees in a rigorous five-year program that had him enrolled in engineering courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of...
Most students who major in Afro-American Studies say that in no way is it less rigorous than other concentrations. Dawkins, however, says that Afro-American concentrators tend to be more relaxed than those in other departments. "They are not really as intense as those in government," she says. "They...
No matter how rigorous the testing requirements, no organization can be certain that its members are not infected with the AIDS virus. Reason: the body can take as long as four months to produce antibodies to the virus. Until that happens, an AIDS carrier will test negative and may gain...