Word: harsher
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...dead yet. He spoke this week in Berlin's Zeughaus Museum, commemorating Nazi Germany's Heroes' Memorial Day. There was no doubt that the voice was Hitler's; but it was a different voice from the one the world was used to hearing, harsher, monotonous and mumbling; and the words were spoken by a changed man. Perhaps by order, there was no applause...
Ever since Vice President Henry Agard Wallace made his first major speech on post-war problems last May, critics have tried to make him sound like a starry-eyed global godfather whose only interest was a quart of milk for every Hottentot. Last week gentle Henry Wallace, using harsher language than he likes, struck back with some telling blows-and managed to bring out some of the simple elements of national self-interest in his program...
...adds naively, "I should have been astonished if anyone had called me a liberal." He claims that all his troubles and all the damage he did to the world grew out of his endless capacity for being fooled by political sharpers. History's verdict is likely to be harsher...
...perfectly natural and creative use of the form. Instead of using the orchestra as an instrument of expression, Brahms makes it the goal itself. This point I have belabored before, I know, but previously only with regard to general thematic development. Here the themes themselves seem cut from harsher rock, deliberately hewn out in large chunks to satisfy a standard of bigness...
High over Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City last week circled an airplane trailing a sign: "Beat Hague-Vote American." Down on the ground, harsher words were being spoken: "Politically and morally our city has lost all semblance of democracy, having degenerated into America's first dictatorship. [After] years of misrule . . . Jersey City is tottering on the precipice of financial bankruptcy." Both skyborne and ground-gripping words came from Republicans who hoped-but scarcely expected-to pry Frank Hague loose from his 24-year-old seat as mayor of Jersey City. If facts were votes, they might have...