Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that suited him fine. Fact is that Peking does not like the prospect, however slim, of a major relaxation of the tensions between Russia and the West. For Mao still requires the cold fear of war hanging over the heads of his 650 million subjects to help force the harsh realities of the Communist revolution down their throats. Peasant resistance to Mao's rural communes, though chiefly passive, has reached proportions alarming to Peking: food, coal, steel and industrial production are sagging far below earlier boastful figures. And for all his claims that Red China is moving into...
...where he made his pile. An ancient crone tells wondrous fairy tales. A pathetic schoolmaster dreams of the great day when Greece will rise and take Anatolia from the Turks. But above all, there is a palpable sense of humanity that comes from a people for whom life is harsh but living sweet...
...four hours the ministers talked in the 90° heat. De Gaulle seemed to have decided on a plan, but gave his colleagues no inkling of what it was. Instead, he polled their views. A small group was for a harsh, unrelenting continuation of the war until Algeria could be integrated with France. At least three "liberals" urged independence for Algeria, even if it meant negotiating with the F.L.N. terrorists. But by far the greatest number of the 18 ministers favored the third alternative De Gaulle had put before them: an entirely new juridical status for Algeria, to be submitted...
...summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks at these ancient cities, set like "green jewels on a withered hand," in a harsh and little-known land (see color pages...
Pretty to look at, pleasant to listen to, the new Blue Angel is a distinct cut above most summer film fare. But there was harsh truth in Marlene Dietrich's comment when she was asked what she expected of the remake of the film that put her into orbit. Said Marlene: "Hollywood people have delusions of grandeur. They just think they can make...