Word: rigorousity
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Harvard's Alvin Labat holds forth on the French classical theatre, in French. Should be rigorous, but fun.
Such conclusions are registered, with impressive clarity and lyricism, in Tristes Tropiques, a book described by its author as his "intellectual vacation." Laymen have turned to it as a painless introduction to his thought. All his other works demand rigorous intellectual effort as well as a basic understanding of anthropology...
The encyclical referred to the recent wave of priests who have left the church to marry as "lamentable," and proposed rigorous new methods of choosing and training candidates for the cassock, including more psychological guidance. For the moment at least, the encyclical would still public argument within the church on...
When a chartered Imperial Airlines Constellation plunged into a swamp outside Richmond, Va., in 1961, killing 74 army recruits, the struggling nonscheduled airline industry seemed to crash with it. Irked by poor safety records, corner-cutting operations and complaints from tourists stranded when companies ran out of money-and armed...
The heavy burden of learning and the rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated...