Word: rigorousity
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"Frankfurter was a tremendously rigorous taskmaster. He continually pressed me on every point I missed," Vorenberg recalls.
In his four years at Harvard, the three time All-American has juggled an average of four hours of workout per day with classes and time logged in the library. This has meant sitting through morning classes after completing a pre dawn workout designed to push his body to the...
When things get truly rigorous, a certain improvisational talent comes into play. At Show Low, a tiny town (pop. 3,800) in eastern Arizona, some members of the company had to relieve themselves on the snow. Even when plumbing is provided, timing is vital. Portable toilets were installed in Lubbock...
Even strict worker-conduct rules win wide support. For example, alcohol is banned at company lunches, and male employees are forbidden to wear long sideburns or beards. When a stewardess was fired for posing out of uniform in a Playboy picture layout last year, one offended colleague observed: ''...
To be nettled by untimely yakking does not imply the advocacy of universal silence. A rigorous discipline, silence is practiced by certain monks and others who believe that it heightens the soul's capacity to approach God. For ordinary people, a bit of silence may occasionally seem golden, but...