Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope also promised last week. Thanks to the Vatican's laggard communications methods, his encyclical Humanae Vitae was released to the press before most of the world's bishops had received their copies. Its teaching, moreover, disturbed a number of national hierarchies, which subsequently modified its harsh condemnation of contraception as an absolute moral evil. The new encyclical, many bishops hope, will not only provide more clarity but also reflect a larger consensus of Catholic opinion...
Other witnesses were equally harsh. Freelance Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian agreed that children are learning that "the only difference in tactics and ethics between a cop and a crook is who has the badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of admissions said before yesterday's meeting that he and other members of the Board were looking for "compromise solution." "Severance seems too harsh a punishment," he said, "but we don't want this to turn into a Munich situation either...
...primary sources of fedayeen strength are the Palestinian refugees, now 1,500,000 strong, who for 20 years have been a scattered and forlorn people, possessing neither a country nor any say in the harsh events profoundly affecting them. Dispossessed of their homes, lands and sense of nationhood when Israel was founded in 1948, they dispersed throughout the Middle East. They endured the scorn of their host populations toward outsiders, although the most skilled and educated came to dominate many areas of Arab intellectual and commercial life. Those that did not assimilate settled in crowded camps, mostly in Jordan...
...That harsh charge was echoed repeatedly during a three-day congressional hearing on the $25 billion-a-year auto-repair industry-a branch of U.S. business that collects an average $250 annually for each of the 100 million cars on U.S. roads. The public hearing followed an eight-month study that faulted the automakers and the nation's 400,000 auto-service outlets for the high cost and low quality of maintenance...