Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopper, "nature" is largely man-made (the glare of electricity and the harsh jumble of U.S. cities and towns fascinates him) and it consists more of what he remembers than of what he sees. His big, cleanly painted canvases look like windows on simplified reality...
...number of items sold, went down an estimated 10% during 1947. Part of the drop was due to the increase in production, which tended to satisfy demand, and part to the rise in prices. In a free economy, prices can also be a cure for inflation-if a harsh one. As London's Economist put it: "Rising prices and inflation are . . . associated together, like scarlet fever and rising temperatures. . . . But so far from being the same thing, one is nature's cure for the other. Inflation is an excess of demand over supply and one way in which...
...want to isolate children in a world of make-believe," observed Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, 58-year-old Manhattan school principal. "But with international conditions what they are, any small happiness that can be provided to counterbalance harsh realities is a fine thing." Fifty years ago, she gained fame of a sort by writing to the New York Sun and receiving in reply the much-reprinted, beamingly sentimental editorial: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
Once, ten years ago, the harsh outlines of reality had begun to focus in Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero...
Cause&Cure. As violently anti-Semitic as he is antiCommunist, Arcand wants harsh laws against both Jews and Commies. The Jews he blames for all the world's ills, says that they started both World Wars and that he would ship them all to Madagascar if he could. That gets him onto another race: "Within the century there will be 120 million Negroes in the U.S. What will happen to the white...