Word: harshness
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...heart is sent back after one such mission stained with red clay and cracked from the harsh sun. In Edmunds' voice of lament, he wishes he were green. He desires a different more alive form, to be "green rain on grass. "It may not be easy to being green, but it's better than being red in Edmunds's desert...
...Course heads know partly because of thecomments they get on their own teaching that someevaluations will be unnecessarily harsh andcruel," he says, "and my sense is that they try tobuffer that with their teaching fellows,conveying--if there is any bad news to beconveyed--conveying it with some exp anation likethat...
...bright notes do not mean that most peasants welcomed the face-off between the guerrillas and the army. For many it has brought harsh treatment from the occupying forces. In San Andres Larrainzar, one of the rebel- infiltrated towns where the army withdrew its troops last week, residents consider both sides equally repressive. ``We just want to live in peace,'' says Miguel Lopez Gomez, an elder in the local church who wears the traditional wool tunic of the Tzotzil Indians. ``We want to work, pray, feed our families. We don't want any confrontations here...
Good to hear, since Vermont will certainly not be the last harsh crowd Tracy will face this year. But face it, Crimson fans: the gauntlet has been thrown down...
...which the author seems less intent on etching a life than on erasing previous lives: he is obsessed with discrediting earlier biographies. Hardy in recent years has been the subject of two substantial portraits, Michael Millgate's and Robert Gittings', both of which bathe him in a cold, harsh light. Seymour-Smith strives "to see how much gaiety and good humor coexisted in Hardy, with the too celebrated gloom." That's a noble-sounding goal, and yet the paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove another's magnanimity. Seymour-Smith spends so much time snapping...