Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacMurray, who has a fair gift for comedy, is wasted on this buffoonery, and the harsh camera work on Madeleine Carroll almost smacks of persecution...
...Custom House-an essay, then, of political significance and courage-acting as a kind-of "lightning rod" to keep the full shock of his masterpiece from the public. Imagination and the life of Salem had interpenetrated. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes: "He has done it, and it will never be harsh country again ... A light falls upon the place not of land or sea! How much he did for Salem...
...perfectly understandable that the American Military Government in Germany is not being very harsh with the Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers...
Hugh Dalton, who draws down $20,000 a year as Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a cabinet sinecure), made a major concession to the harsh facts of modern British life: "because of the rise in the cost of living" he swore off cigarettes* (he had been smoking two packs a day, at 70? a pack...
...moving passage, he speaks to the Russians: "Your rulers tell you many harsh things about America . . . Yet any American who visits the Soviet Union comes away deeply aware that, for all his country's shortcomings, America has a most precious heritage: freedom. Not the four freedoms, or this freedom, or that one. Freedom . . . We Americans hope that some day you may find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would...