Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slacks. The I.C.I.E. survey did not try to measure the effectiveness of such house organs. But on that score, one critic last fortnight had some harsh words. Said Dr. Vergil D. Reed, a J. Walter Thompson Co. research executive: many business magazines are poorly edited, misguided publications that exist only because it's fashionable for industry to have them...
Gide's difference from other people extends to his extraordinary clothes, his inconsistencies (he has professed to be both an atheist and a Christian), his admitted homosexuality and a superbly polished literary style that makes most other contemporary prose seem sloppy. Gide has suffered more harsh cuffs from critics and more indifference from the reading public than any other major writer of his time. Now, at 78, he is France's literary lion, a member of the Royal Academy since 1924, a Nobel Prizewinner (1947). In many quarters he is regarded as the world's greatest living...
Three years ago, soldiers from the Volga and the Mississippi, the Thames and the Loire met by the Spree, in the ruins of a harsh, unlovely city situated on the vast plain on the edge of Europe's Slav lands. The city was Berlin. The soldiers brought to it both fear and hope. Since then, fear has grown like weeds amid the debris; hope has been carted off like rubble. Last week from Berlin, TIME Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled this report...
...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
...does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational structure, basic philosophy, nor support of organized labor"; and that historical record dooms to failure "all attempts...