Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier's declaration received the unanimous support of the Chamber (Communists excepted). Deputy Marcelle responded: "However great the personal sacrifices which may be involved, and however harsh the consequences for many, the Opposition heartily associates itself with the courageous words of the Premier...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS ? The rocky strata of Eugene O'Neill's imagination, this time on a harsh New England farm. The triangle of an old man, his young bride and his grown...
...step, and I see the people in these big hotels, like where I stay, the Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm, but it is not for dancing, do you see?" Madame talks as expressively with her arms and hands as with words: at this point she pressed both her hands to her face in an eloquent pantomime...
...reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Peter Veregin was head of the Russian sect known as Doukhobors. Wherever he went in his country, over bleak steppes, through frozen streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though by what agency the plot was cast for his overthrow is as obscure as the bomb was efficient...
...actor in the provinces, he gradually built up a name for himself, always breaking away from the harsh, mechanical traditions of the Classical Age and reserving to himself an intelligent freedom of interpretation. Finally recognized officially, not so much for his acting as for his ability to produce and manage, the Government made him directeur du Theatre National...