Word: rigorousity
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In many ways, Thomas McGuane is a throwback. Though he is just 33, his outlook comes from a time before black humor, the roman nouveau, and the new journalism, when writers and readers believed that fiction was the ideal way to capture the essence of experience. In some respects, McGuane...
Now the space agency is about to double the challenge. This Saturday morning, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn 1B rocket for the start of a bold new mission aboard the $293 million space station-a record...
What Berryman, i.e. Severance, does is to hide his emotions behind a powerful intellect (a charge often levelled against Berryman in his poems). Severance is cold and aloof, ever-curious to communicate, a witty though egotistical entertainer. But he is unable to relate to others on a basic human level...
Though the prices that farmers charge are exempt from the freeze, they are being held in check because wholesalers and retailers refuse to pay more for supplies since their own prices are frozen. Thus farmers are killing chickens and taking other steps to reduce costs. Dairy farmers are being increasingly...
The honors departments--History and Literature, History and Science, and Social Studies--are also a bird of a different feather, primarily because they demand more of their students in terms of the variety of requirements. These fields limit the number of concentrators and contend that they provide more rigorous training...