Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...A.U.C.A. can consequently accomplish little by parading its points before the eyes of university authorities. For all save these who qualify by high scholastic ability for regular scholarships, pecuniary support must be sought outside university treasuries. Today, that is a harsh judgment, but one which is too well buttressed by practical considerations to be regarded as wholly unfair...
...Soviet Government's decision to try the case cannot be changed and if the British Government intends to influence this decision by informing us of its intended measures, then the Ambassador may rest assured nothing will come of it. . . . Matters such as attempted harsh diplomatic pressure from the outside might be successful in Mexico,* but in Russia they are doomed to failure beforehand...
...historian, moreover, will not forget that the House take their architecture from a period when every inn boasted "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown...
True to its name Howard Hanson's new symphony struck no harsh, debatable notes. He attempted to put his listeners in a mellow, tolerant mood when he de scribed it in the program as an "escape from the rather bitter type of modern musical realism which occupies so large a place in contemporary thought." He had used melodies which were conventionally sweet. His horns sang out politely over tremulous violins. Critics were not impressed but the bulk of the audience was far more enthusiastic than it had been over the stark, sardonic symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, played earlier...
...learned committee which permitted itself to be duped by so glib a charlatan. Even his name, now that it's all over, seems a little too well chosen. But when one considers the success of such men as Dr. Cook and Prince Harry F. Romanoff, one cannot be too harsh with a faculty which trusted a man skillful enough to elude the Reich's police for four years...