Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While Soviet law deals lightly with crimes against persons and personal property, t is harsh with crimes where the state or state property is involved," the professor said...
Another measure of failure was hoarding and civil corruption. Chiang had called in son Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20) to take charge of harsh drives against black markets in Shanghai. But the drive bogged down, Chinese said, when Chiang's police discovered hoarded goods in the godowns of David Kung, son of Banker H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang. The Shanghai press screamed for action, but a few days later David Kung with Madame Chiang visited the Gimo. The case was still "under investigation...
Yearning for Secrets. Degas, Valéry reported, did everything the hard way. He "concealed behind harsh and arbitrary opinions ... a despair of ever satisfying himself; his bitter and lofty views developed along with his penetrating knowledge of the masters; his yearning for the secrets he ascribed to them; his perpetual awareness of their baffling perfection...
...Jersey that he did not think psychologists at Bloomfield or elsewhere should be selected for their political or economic beliefs. And the press has also heard that Newman said Bloomfield flouted freedom of speech and conscience when it insisted on orthodox opinions. Hearing all this, they have given Newman harsh publicity in the last month...
Light Up the Sky is more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...