Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strict Code. He was raised in New Concord (pop. 2,000), a quiet, shirt-sleeves-and-overalls town in central Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed...
...lower school levels, this means strict training in "habitual good acts," the cultivation of faith and morals that constitutes "soul saving," the impressive air of neatness, manners and discipline that strikes visitors to any parochial school in the land. It means piety: Mass before school, prayer before class, grace at lunch, prayer when school lets out, and an average 2½ hours of religious instruction each week. It means "conditioning the will" in order to have "the power to choose freely what is good in life...
Unlike other young guitarists with great technical facility, Diaz does not let the special effects confuse or hinder his expression. His phrasing is carefully planned, his rhythm strict but not pedantic, and his dynamics carefully tempered. Mr. Diaz interprets his music intellectually rather than emotionally, maintaining warmth with his tone quality and haunting sonorities...
Despite the Communists' rejection of "bourgeois morality'' in the early revolutionary days, when divorces could be had for the asking, marital laws in present-day Russia are at least as strict as in most Western countries, and divorce requires lengthy court action. In answer to a recent newspaper questionnaire, many young Russians said that they wanted divorce made easier, asked that divorce cases be handled not by the regular judiciary but by the recently established "comrades' courts," composed of ordinary citizens-so far used mostly to deal with juvenile delinquency and lighter cases of "antisocial behavior...
...West. The imitator was apt to become less forceful, further from the essential nature of the subject, as a result of his study of the masters. Continuities of style certainly mark Western art, too, but the variations have been more extreme and are not bound by the strict Chinese categories of subject matter for painting: landscapes, figures, animals, birds and flowers...