Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such artist was known simply as McKay; he was a late-18th-Century itinerant painter whose Mrs. John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...
...awkward, terrified, sometimes brutal, are far more human and likable than the more civilized, capable Cro-Magnons. Here & there through the book some readers may suspect that Author Fisher is actually writing a modern allegory, placing his story in prehistoric times because its picture of humanity would be too harsh if laid in the here...
...This is roughly equivalent to an $18-billion U.S. war loan.) But skeptical French financiers flatly called the loan a failure. They passed along the almost unbelievable gossip that two-thirds of the bonds were apparently bought by: 1) Belgian money fleeing the harsh deflation measures in that country (TIME, Nov. 6); 2) German franc holdings, built up in the occupation, coming back into France via Switzerland...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...
Expressionists. But as he aged he produced tough, vivid pictures in a manner entirely his own. His subjects were Maine mountains, fish, flowers, ropes, shells, and harsh, haunting portraits, painted from memory, of men who were his spiritual heroes. Among the Museum's most striking Hartleys...