Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonpartisan educational post in 1962 by 237,384 votes; he was re-elected in 1966 with a record tally of 2,925,401, or 1,580,000 more than the combined total garnered by his three opponents. A lifetime educator, Rafferty built his popularity on his harsh criticism of progressive education, which he calls "slobism" and the "fraud of the century...
...weeks after his conviction, Debray approached the army about getting married; the French consul in La Paz handled the negotiations. Perhaps to make up for Debray's harsh sentence, the army finally agreed to the marriage-on condition that no reporters cover the ceremony. At the wedding, the only witnesses were the French consul and Debray's mother, Janine Alexandre-Debray. The couple spent their first night under guard in a cottage in Choreti, five miles from Camiri, and the next few nights in Debray's room at the officers' club...
...account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover. Though he writes in the third person, no modesty is involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem ma imposed by the Viet Nam war on many American liberals: self-exiled from Lyndon Johnson's Democratic Party, they are forced to array their antiwar consciences...
...Noon, despite the fact that it was not Stalin's grim regime but Khrushchev's that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...
...persisted, and 20,000 more tons of garbage piled up in the city's streets. While Lindsay enjoyed considerable moral support for his stand, the city's three major daily papers attacked Rockefeller. Even the New York Times, normally a Rockefeller supporter, flayed the Governor in uncharacteristically harsh terms, indicting him for "sabotage," "appeasement," "bad politics and bad government...