Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While harsh and sometimes cruel, student judgments do not necessarily downgrade the taskmasters. Slate contends that Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says...
...girls, as important as sex is the desire to "love." But an early expectation of romance can soon be replaced by harsh reality. Disillusion is especially rapid when the husband has to curtail his education or children arrive too early...
...typical all-white jury breeds injustice in three ways: 1) Negroes committing crimes against Negroes are likely to be let off too easily; 2) Negroes committing crimes against whites receive unduly harsh penalties; 3) whites committing crimes against Negroes either get off scot free or receive token sentences. Into the last category falls the breakneck acquittal last September in Hayneville, Ala., of Thomas Coleman, accused of killing an Episcopal seminarian and wounding a Catholic priest, both civil rights workers. It was at least slightly embarrassing to the state that Coleman, one of the local white courthouse-hangers...
...fierce Kalahari desert between the Boers of South Africa and the northerly Bantus. When game is scarce, Gaisseau relates, they often spare their young the agony of starvation by smothering them in shallow, sandy graves. They are among the most stubbornly primitive people on earth, and their harsh mercy has already marked them for extinction: at the time of filming, only 28 members of the tribe were living...
Long Day's Journey is h harsh play. But it is also a play of love and understanding. The characters slip into each other's failings as often as they lash at each other. The harshness is inherent in any four-hour production, but must never drown out O'Neill's forgiveness. Ginn has let the forgiveness fend for itself. Even the lighting and makeup are too harsh...