This logic -- that the pols' fictitious personae are built, then become immutable in the rigid glow of public approval -- doesn't hold up.
Nor should there be a rigid demarcation between public and private providers: distinctions are better drawn over responsiveness and efficiency than over ownership.
The resulting widespread subjection to the rigid system of public education (see Frederick Wiseman's "High School") and resultant sense of oppression led to identification with America's truly oppressed class — blacks — and their music — blues — resulting in the rise of rock.
But the underlying principle (beside France's great number of fonctionnaires and their stringently meritocratic and bureaucratic orders) is France's rigid division between public and private on which the affaire of Dominique Strauss-Kahn turned the spotlight.
Though a small number of seats in the military courtroom were reserved for members of the public, rigid reporting restrictions remained in place that prevent any live coverage of the proceedings.
In that letter, English called the disputes of the Civil War settled, and promised a "sound currency, of honest money", the restriction of Chinese immigration, and a "rigid economy in public expenditure".
Meshing the rigid schedules of a public high school and the unpredictable lives of musicians is difficult.
