Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's hour of need for leadership, the Loyal Opposition does not want to take power. For one thing, most Tory leaders do not believe that the country would support them. If they did come to power, they would have to champion more of the same harsh, unpopular measures (including conscription) which have plagued Labor. A Tory Government would not be able to get as much cooperation from British workers as the Labor regime. Said one Conservative M.P.: "If we had won the 1945 election, we would now probably be in the middle of our second general strike...
...Paul E. Richter, who helped Jack Frye put T.W.A. on the air map, quit as T.W.A.'s executive vice president with some harsh words: "I cannot agree with the policies, the programs, or the procedures proposed by the controlling stockholder" (i.e., Howard Hughes). The fourth top man to quit this year, Richter's departure left T.W.A. with little airwise talent on the executive committee temporarily running the line...
Last week, after the U.S. premiere of Messiaen's harsh, ascetic Hymne pour grand Orchestre, Manhattan music critics also failed to agree. Growled the New York Times: "... A slightly varied and highly diluted version [of Le Sacre...
...Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "A harsh, powerful play ... It contains some of the best and most touching writing of the greatest American playwright...
Church & State of Mind. Rouault is a novelty among artists: he goes to church, regularly. During the week he works alone, locked in his studio with sheafs of his barely decipherable poetry and his harsh, thick, color-encrusted paintings, broken-like leaded windows-into black-bordered stabs of color, which he sometimes waits years to complete. He is bad tempered-and painfully shy. "I believe in suffering," he once wrote; "with me it is not feigned; that is my only merit...