Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter is almost totally irrelevant and only the first requires an extended answer. The real reason that the question of authorship has been raised at all lies in the nature of the material. Literary magazines have periodically printed issues written entirely outside Harvard in the past, with no harsh consequences from University Hall. The New Student, however, proposes to publish controversial matter, and furthermore to take a view to which most people do not adhere. That is why the Dean's Office found and magnified the question of who does the writing...
...fame of 32-year-old Henry Koerner's harsh paintings had preceded him home from Europe (TIME, April 28). Critics expected his first Manhattan exhibition to be good...
...Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...
...Beat Behind. San Francisco was only a beat behind in belatedly discovering the greatness of Béla Bartók's music (TIME, March 18, 1946). Most listeners had stumbled on Bartók's harsh, stubborn harmonies, his jagged rhythms, and never got through to the original and melodic genius that audiences and critics were now beginning to find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions...
Hopper's Summer Evening, a young couple talking in the harsh light of a cottage porch, is inescapably romantic, but Hopper was hurt by one critic's suggestion that it would do for an illustration in "any woman's magazine." Hopper had the painting in the back of his head "for 20 years, and I never thought of putting the figures in until I actually started it last summer. Why, any art director would tear the picture apart. The figures were not what interested me; it was the light streaming down, and the night all around...