Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound was harsh, the odor quite unseemly...
Worst example of the harsh censorship came in mid-week when lanky, hard-working Alistair Cooke, now a U.S. citizen, correspondent for British Broadcasting Corp., London Times, and London Daily Herald, tried to send a dispatch to the Herald naming a few of the things correspondents had not been permitted to transmit. He learned correspondents are even forbidden to report what sort of reports are forbidden. Blue-penciled from his dispatch was, among other things, this: "Most British correspondents agree . . . that it is practically impossible to report any news item about the [U.S. race] problem...
...studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of the early faith. Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...after man emerged from the reading rooms, and each, protected perhaps from the harsh, cold realities of the world by his intellectual microcosmes, failed to fall victim to their siren charms...
...which have made advertising the machine tool for selling the products of mass production. He sees the job to be done as an advertising job, but with this big difference: in peace, advertising sold the people plenty and pleasure; in war, advertising must sell them understanding of sacrifice and harsh restriction...