Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temple Drake is still in sanctuary. The days have not been easy and the pressures have been intense and Temple Drake cries a lot, the hot tears in odd juxtaposition to the rosy cheeks down which they slowly fall. The temptation to give in, to surrender and accept the harsh discipline imposed by the Purdue Marching Band, must be great. But Temple Drake perserves--and in her perseverance is a shining example for beleaguered youth everywhere...
When the President met with Thieu in Honolulu in July for private talks, some officials insist, he was trying to persuade Viet Nam's President to accept a bombing halt. After the meeting, Johnson spoke in harsh terms of the fighting ahead, and the assumption was that he and Thieu had agreed on a new step-up in military activity. That assumption may well have been incorrect. Not long after the Honolulu meeting, a group of South Vietnamese senators passed through Paris en route home after a visit to Washington and told newsmen and diplomats there that a bombing...
...harsh and unnecessary repression, the government succeeded chiefly in drawing anger toward itself and provoking sympathy for the students. Quite possibly the army's actions may have revived a campus rebellion that was beginning to peter out. A Chamber of Deputies commission had announced itself ready to meet the students, who were still pressing a list of demands, most notably 1) changing ill-defined antisubversion laws and 2) disbanding the city's riot cops. Now, such hope for accommodation lay blasted in the plaza...
Several student leaders later complained that the plainclothes federal agents were unnecessarily harsh to Kroll during his arrest. Observers said he was dragged down the steps outside the chapel, and an official statement noted "the faceless brutality...
Commissioner Ray Girardin, they usually come from the bottom 25% of their high school class. U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Charles Wahl adds that most policemen he has worked with had "harsh and punitive fathers...