Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia dismembered, isolated, weakened; German hordes and German planes free for battle in western Europe or in the Middle East; a disaster possibly worse than all the other disasters of World War II. With these possibilities only too imminent, it was easy, now, to believe that the cold, harsh face of Bock could turn into the face of victory for Hitler and the Germans. That face was everywhere in Russia. It was the face of Dietl on the Finnish front, where the Russians fought to keep their access to the North Atlantic. It was the face of Leeb...
...knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down." Still a scrapper, Churchill the Prime Minister turned on the rich flow of rhetoric which stiffened British spines in the darkest hours of World War II. This time his finely chiseled words, falling flat and harsh, rubbed salt into the sores of India. "Mischievous half-truths," screamed the Indian press...
...TIME (Aug. 3) in the article entitled . . . "Voice from the Mountain," the last sentence read as follows: "The post-war world was not all a matter of social-worker theory; it would also involve harsh duties, hard work and economic sense...
This is a story of a girl who learns, through a series of harsh disillusionments, that what she called "clinging to her ideals" was really a mulish effort to hang on to a happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...
Vaguely people feel that this sudden shift is somehow due to the war, to a longing to escape through music from realities that have become so harsh and drab, to a revived sense of the nearness of death which lies at the root of the appreciation as well as the creation of great music. But whatever the reasons for the change, the facts were startling enough...