Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Academically, the label "journalese" can become harsh criticism. But what Lillian helm and does in "The Searching Wind" and what Edward Chodorov does in "Decision" if then made good propaganda and poor theatre. For the same reason that a newspaper editorialist and make facts and figures more palatable than a Congressional committee report, talk, by accenting the personal, can make the social issue of race discrimination more acceptable to the requirements of the stage...
This was as far as 80-year-old Q got in his autobiography. Strolling on the highway in the harsh wartime world of 1944, he was struck down by a jeep...
...Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy and tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils...
...Beginning. The Russians had no monopoly on trouble. In the British and U.S. zones, policy differed from district to district, and in some areas military government teams changed almost as often as the weather (TIME, June 4). Harsh observance of the non-fraternization rule was robbing the Anglo-American forces of the cooperation of sincere anti-Nazis, while the necessity of employing existing staffs for administration kept many a Nazi in power...
Chicago's Hutchins thus revived the theory, widely held before 1939, that a harsh peace breeds another war. If he thought no men were beasts, there were plenty of others who thought otherwise. Their feelings were aptly expressed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Cartoonist Dan Fitzpatrick. whose charcoal lines often speak louder than words...