Word: rigorousity
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The storied boarding schools of the East are as well-mannered, wealthy and academically rigorous as they ever were. Indeed, many are broadening their curriculums and ridding themselves of anachronistic customs. But they are not so exclusive or sought after as in the past. In selecting students for the fall...
Disreputable Class. The fourth of William F. Buckley's ten children, Jim inherited his millionaire father's passion for intellectual excellence and rigorous honesty. When he was 16, his father wrote him a note at school: "Your mother and I remarked Sunday afternoon that we were very pleased...
Szell's loss to the world of music, like Toscanini's before him, is incalculable. The two conductors resembled each other in many ways, though they had arrived at the resemblance by opposite paths. The Italian had brought Verdian passion to the Viennese world of Mozart, Beethoven and...
No one can fault you here. But we would be disturbed- many of us not of your generation who have gone before- if there were any implication in your valid fresh insight that depth of concern has somehow now made knowledge less valuable, perhaps even unnecessary, or that strong feeling...
If one uses Merleau-Ponty's historical objectivity, the mere fact that this University continues to exist in America links it, and all who attend it, to the horror of the war. What of a less rigorous standard?