Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebellious Henry Kaiser, who believes in maximum expansion (he is currently spending upwards of $45 million on Fontana alone), agreed with other steelmen that the key to more expansion is the quicker-or more realistic-write-off of its cost. In lieu of that, Kaiser has adopted his own harsh substitute. He raised the price of his Fontana steel $30 a ton to apply against the Government debt on his plant...
...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
There is no lack of either a mind or a theater mind in The Victors-it is as charged with ideas as with harsh melodrama. The fault, in fact, lies just that way-in a too-muchness of everything that becomes a form of melodrama in itself. In piling up too many motives, in piling on too much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors...
...Olivia de Havilland, is not a great work of cinematic art. It is, like the frightening scream from Miss de Havilland which rattles its sound track, an honest, accurate and dramatically powerful echo of certain ugly facts of modern life. It does what Hollywood has rarely done before: look harsh reality in the eye. Backed by enthusiastic reviews and smash box-office success in two big cities, The Snake Pit will be released next month throughout...
...mimeographed Bulletin was under no illusion that its cheerful chirping could drown out the harsh diapason from the rest of the press. Its editors were "nothing but working newspapermen who are tired of the 'Daily Wail,' the 'Unlucky Star,' the 'Scare Telegram' and the 'Terrible Times' . . . We are no journalistic ostriches and we do not deny the fact that our world today is full of misery and injustice ... All we want to do is show the other, more pleasant side of the picture...