YOU would think that Alice Hudson, chief of the map division at the New York Public Library, would have an inflexible view of New York City geography.
When the church recently backed off its threat to excommunicate the wayward archbishop unless he renounced his wife, the real mystery for most observers was not whither Archbishop Milingo, but how a church with an inflexible view on matters like birth control had suddenly become indulgent enough to embrace a married priest and follower of the Reverend Moon.
He has earned an endorsement from Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, Iran's most prominent extremist senior cleric, and he holds inflexible views on foreign policy and the country's nuclear programme.
About a tenth of Americans are what they call "true believers" holding strong and inflexible views about morality and their own creed's exclusive pathway to heaven; Aunt Susan is not welcome in their company.
Even political associates sometimes found Mr. Hall's obeisance to the Soviet Union excessive, and they grumbled, especially in his later years, that his inflexible views and dictatorial personality were hampering the party and isolating it from the wider political world.
Although Non Campus Mentis has been warmly received in most educational quarters, it has attracted criticisms from "a few" fellow academics "whose response has been along the lines of saying that anyone who insists on teaching English grammar or conventional history is somehow being unfair to students because they're imposing a certain, inflexible world view on them".
Regarding "Netanyahu's extremism" (Views, June 7): The gist of James Carroll's argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inflexible position on maintaining Jerusalem as a single, undivided city under Israeli sovereignty is not supported by the Israeli populace.
Three of these criticisms [1, 2, 3] are ontological in nature and are closely associated with his exclusive or inflexible world-view, whereas the last [4] is epistemological and relates to the legitimisation of his theory (Fig. 1).
Dr. Payzant, who was an assistant secretary of education in the Clinton administration, said he agreed with Chancellor Klein that education officials in the Bush administration were too inflexible in their view of reading programs.
"I found out later that I wasn't offered the job, because Mitchell thought I was too inflexible with my views," Kleinman said.
The candidates also took different views on fiscal issues, with Ms. Long pressing for spending cuts and no tax increases and Ms. Gillibrand criticizing that view as inflexible.
