Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Observers who had seen both systems felt that RCA's color was still not quite so good as that of CBS. The New York Times's Jack Gould thought RCA's primary colors (red, blue and green) "appeared less harsh to the eye than was the case with the CBS system," but he found "a tendency toward green in some images" and "the RCA tints seemed somewhat less warm" than those of CBS. The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Guilfoyle complained that "the reds were off-color" in some pictures. Joseph Kaselow, in the New York...
...before the committee to complain came the National Automobile Dealers' Association, aided & abetted by the C.I.O. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther. Indirect controls, they cried, were awful. Regulation W was so harsh, said New Jersey Dealer William L. Mallon, that "many thousands of new car dealers [might be] compelled to discontinue their business." The auto dealers wanted the payment time on new cars to be extended from 15 to 18 months...
This Mao who spoke with Wu's harsh voice was not an "agrarian reformer" (as the U.S. State Department had called him), nor a "town-meeting democrat" (as Owen Lattimore had called him), nor a Tito faithless to Moscow (as London and Washington had hoped). The Mao who spoke through Wu was China's most successful warlord since Kublai Khan. He laid down the terms for all Asia's subjugation. Upon that, Mao's senior partner, Stalin, prepared to build for the enslavement of the West. Together, Stalin and Mao had traveled more than halfway...
...said, "seem to redound to her private good." Another time, Balbin remarked: "Social justice for her can be summed up as her own economic betterment." Observers believed that it was disrespect not so much to the President as to the President's wife that had earned Balbin his harsh sentence...
...answers is easy: CBS color is good-in some ways better than Technicolor. It adds depth and detail to the TV picture. The colors themselves are vivid but not harsh. Some programs-sports, for example-gain immeasurably with the addition of color. But a poor TV show, of course-tasteless comedy, tired drama or stale vaudeville routines-cannot be freshened by all the hues in the spectrum. An entertainment egg can be laid as easily in color as in black & white-perhaps more easily...