Word: rigorousity
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Expelled in disgrace. Cousteau was shipped to a rigorous pension in Alsace ruled by a former German schoolteacher. The change was instantaneous. Under challenge and discipline, Cousteau turned scholar. He easily passed the tough exams for the naval academy, where he graduated second in his class ("I even studied with...
"It is made lawful for you," says the Koran, "to go in unto your wives on the night of the fast [and] hold intercourse with them and eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black thread of the dawn." But all through the long...
One glittering example of how the universities may develop is Michigan State's remarkable new liberal arts branch at Oakland (TIME, Sept. 28). Completely reversing the "tech and ag" image of its parent institution, Oakland is an avowedly intellectual school limited to such rigorous matters as rhetoric, Russian, philosophy...
"For this reason there is no private Christianity . . . Theology cannot be carried on in the private lighthouses of some sort of merely personal discoveries and opinions. It can be carried on only in the Church-it can be put to work in all its elements only in the context of...
Perhaps the most advanced debauchee set the world has ever known was the French Order of the Aphrodites. The membership fee was ?10,000 for a gentleman and ?5,000 for a lady. The order was limited to 200 members, each of whom had to pass a rigorous three-hour...