Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven, upon his mother's second marriage, Baudelaire found himself a mystical Hamlet turned out into the harsh reality of a cruel school life. When he became of age he abandoned the ambitions of his family and became dandy living a life before a mirror with a mistress Americans would describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh...
...murky Trinity Church on Copley Square. In personal attitude Bishop-elect Sherrill is considered high-church. New York. Since the death of his suffragan, Herbert Shipman, in March, Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York has been seeking a complaisant successor. Last week he received a harsh snub from Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 61, editor of the denominationally liberal Chronicle (monthly) who had been suggested for the post. Dr. Cummins con siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning...
Author Notch has harsh things to say about the Mob, thinks it is gaining control of civilization, is not happy about it. Says he: "A mob is made up of a group of persons unable to think straight because they are affected by the consciousness of their own numbers. . . . The Mob destroys spiritual values by accepting them; it destroys great men by adopting their principles." Because he is a writer, Author Notch's prime examples of mob-rule are taken from the literary racket...
...mysterious, pleasant, Raymond Ditmars suggested that "the terrific crash and turmoil of life inside an anthill" must be comparable to that of a human metropolis. In the Berkshires he found anthills three feet high in each of which some 40,000 ants lived according to the complexities of their harsh and courtly government. In one of these he planned to insert a microphone strong enough to stand being lugged up the side of a mountain, delicate enough to record the clamor of tiny corridors, the swarming of young male and female ants, the uproar of sexless, wingless insects building subterranean...
Bride 68 (Tobis). With dialog part English and part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over...