Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after the videotape was broadcast, minority leader Robert Dole took to the Senate floor to make an unusually harsh assessment of Israel's actions. He charged that Israel had "struck out alone, free-lancing," with no regard for the American hostages. Said Dole: "Perhaps a little more responsibility on the part of the Israelis would be refreshing...
What, then, one wonders on an idle summer evening, would the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night's Dream make of us, and what can we make of him? The first thing we notice when we see his play today is how little love has changed, with all its harsh geometry of triangles and unrequited passions; nor do we have any difficulty recognizing its evergreen cast of characters: the impatient suitor trying to persuade his girl to let him share her bed, the fair-weather swain shifting in an instant from rhapsody to rancor, the lovers plotting to escape a tyrannical father...
FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). Friedman won two Pulitzer Prizes during the 1980s while covering the Middle East for the New York Times. Now based in Washington, he looks back on the harsh realities of a region drenched in myths and bloodshed...
...fought for any length of time at such altitudes, breathing air that contains less than half the oxygen at sea level, at temperatures that drop below -43 degrees F, in blinding blizzards that can last days. Both sides admit that 8 out of 10 casualties are caused by the harsh conditions -- including soldiers being swept away in cascades of snow or tumbling into crevasses. Says a Pakistani officer at the northern end of the Saltoro sector: "We are brave. They are brave. And we both face the same enemies: the weather and the altitude...
Acknowledging his harsh criticism of the Reagan appointees and the Court's conservative majority, Rom said, "I didn't come here to editorialize, but I can't help...