Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been lecturing Adenauer, De Gaulle or any U.S. Senator who has anything harsh to say about Russia, as if to speak firmly were to jeopardize the chances of negotiation and peace. London's popular press presents the Berlin crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor...
From his Hampshire home, doughty Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, whose forthright expressions of opinion often seem equally harsh on friend and foe, announced a new project: a trip to Moscow to look over "this conflict between East and West." Trumpeted Monty: "I want to talk to these people to see what they think about it all." Did the field marshal think his, ah, straight-forward approach might smooth things a bit? "I certainly shall not make it worse...
...20th Century-Fox, Betty Grable's assets-pretty, round face, small, high-pitched singing voice, and the ability to stay on her feet through the dance numbers-were parlayed by skillful sound engineers and cameramen into a vision of the little girl next door turned vaudevillian. Under the harsh nightclub lights, Performer Grable looked uncomfortably like the little girl's well-preserved mother, as she sang...
...morality tale told by French Novelist Simon is harsh and gloomy. The story of Montés' futile wanderings is told through the recollections of derisive and uncomprehending French villagers, resifted by the man who collected the gossip, and who was the gaunt man's only close acquaintance. Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid...
Taste of Sorrow. Author Simon's harsh, hard-blowing prose suggests, in the oblique way of poetry, the wind he writes of. A member of France's school of New Realists (TIME. Aug. 4; Oct. 13), he sprawls 1,000-word sentences, nested with concentric sets of parenthetical statements and restatements, across four-page expanses of type. The flow of words, like the wind, halts for a moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again...