Word: rigorousness
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William E. Hassan, acting president of BWH, said yesterday an environmental study completed by the firm of HMM Associates as well as approval of MATEP's operation by the Masschusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering should demonstrate that downwash is harmless. But Jerome Aaron, MHPC's attorney, questioned the rigor and method of both the private and state examinations...
...Mammon and Cassandra could be heard muttering their dire prophecies along Shubert Alley. Mammon said that no sane person would pay the unprecedented price of $100 a ticket. Cassandra moaned that 8½ hours in a seated position, with only a one-hour dinner break, was a spartan rigor that no human frame could endure. (Agreed Socialite C.Z. Guest: "The only way I could sit still for that length of time would be on a horse...
...conservatives, the real problem is not political activism but the loss of discipline and intellectual rigor that set in during the experimental '60s. At that time, many younger Jesuits were influenced as much by the radical politics of Antiwar Activist Father Daniel Berrigan as they were by the society's venerable manual, Spiritual Exercises. As Catholic Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University sees it, a "self-probing, inward-looking, almost narcissistic" mentality has crept into the order today. Liberals contend that they are only trying to do what Jesuits have always done: make the church...
Needless to say, Kennedy's proposal won't win faculty approval, but his analysis of the Law School is useful: Most proposals for curricular reform won't pass the faculty, Kennedy says, because "many of us have little to show except success at 'rigor,' as measured by grades and law review writing in our student days...
...again, an unnecessary Americanization from Krogstad--a hilarious cardboard villain, right out of The Perils of Pauline. He clenches his teeth, he points accusingly, he leans over chairs menacingly, he rubs his palms in sadistic glee. If he had a moustache, he'd sure to twirl it with fiendish rigor. As Kristine, his long lost love, Kim Bendheim seems vaguely robotized. Their climactic scene together is a wet firecracker...