Word: harshness
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...least from naming the group. One wag suggested that, given the character played by the child actor Ronny Howard on The Andy Griffith Show, he might re-dub it Opie Dei. But no, he charged ahead, calling it by name and depicting the society in exactly as harsh a light as the book does. Expect protests...
...being a little harsh, of course. The Times' survey comes with a lengthy, elegant essay couching the whole project in a comfy coccoon of critical nuance, pre-emptively name-checking "the deplorable modern mania for ranking, list-making and fabricated competition" before vigorously succumbing to it. (It also includes the regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail...
...throwback to autocracy. The Kremlin has tightened its grip on society in recent years, cracked down on nongovernmental organizations and maneuvered to take control of natural resources and other industries it deems strategic. The Bush Administration, which has grown uneasy about Russian assertiveness beyond its borders, issued an unusually harsh indictment last week when Vice President Dick Cheney said Russia has "unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people" and warned Moscow against trying to meddle in the affairs of neighboring countries...
...Washington School of Ballet for seven years and recounts that she practiced from three to eight rigorous hours a day. She turned to dance with a professional ballet company when she took a year off after high school to join The Washington Ballet. For Altenburg, the transition from the harsh world of professional dance to the perhaps harsher world of Harvard was a difficult one. Though she now refers to the Harvard Ballet Company as a “second family,” Altenburg missed the intensity of her involvement with dance at first. “I love...
...thought your TF was harsh. In a New York Times article published last month, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Nonfiction Sven Birkerts was deemed “the worst writer of his generation.” The piece, written by journalist Greil Marcus, lambastes Birkerts in a recent review of essays. “Perhaps [Marcus] views himself as the presiding eminence and guardian of the hipster 60s,” retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts?...