Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hence, the New Deal can live. Its liberal philosophies can live if the President will abandon his harsh tactics in pressing through unpopular measures at express-train speed, if he will modify his tude. In this way he can prevent the formation of an anti-administration coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition of liberal Democrats and Republicans. Succeeding here, he would be able to push through the principal legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past...
...contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified U.S. prosperity, these intellectuals croaked of U.S. economic shakiness; while others were snuffing the dawn of a U.S. cultural renaissance, these contributors found U.S. culture chiefly distinguished by shallowness, immaturity, vulgarity. At the time this diagnosis seemed harsh and cockeyed. When the literary "renaissance" of the 20s petered out, and prosperity vanished in 1929 even more completely, these gloomy critics were seen to be on the, right track...
...Most important background factor in an individual's chances for a happy marriage is the happiness of his parents. Other favorable auguries: having had a happy childhood, having had firm but not harsh early home discipline, having had little conflict with his parents and strong attachment to them, having had parents who were frank about...
...fashioned face-lifting, it is the same old man that haunted prohibition societies in the early nineteen hundreds. He is back again; and unless he has mended his ways--which is exceedingly doubtful, considering the nature of the man--he is in for a great deal more harsh treatment...
...albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans back at them." The mysteries and wonders which Naturalist Beebe unearths-his realization that his world of human beings is "only one among a host of many sizes and dimensions of other worlds"-are less stressed in Zaca Venture than in his previous...