Word: harshness
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...drug-like rapture of dreams and hopes untold erased the reality of a cold, wet night. But it was time to go. And just as the inevitable consequence of drink is a rotten stomach and polluted brain, so I fear a night of undiluted hope may be wrecked by harsh sobriety...
...over this "get whatever you can" attitude. Like most educators, and unlike financial experts, she views colleges more as charitable institutions than as businesses. "It's wrong for us who have an education and who have all the privileges to teach each other how to cheat," she says. Her harsh analogy is not to income-tax advice but to outright theft. "It's easy for a lot of people to condemn youngsters who walk into stores that have been blasted open and take things that don't belong to them. Everyone calls that looting, and it's certainly illegal...
...ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended by a simple act of love, by caring for one another...
...Boston production is the first that McPherson has been too sick to participate in. His comissioned work is currently on hold. With Marvin's Room, McPherson has transcended an unbelievably harsh fate...
...rosy for female candidates last night. The most notable loser was Democrat Lynn Yeakel in Pennsylvania. Yeakel, who had said the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas inspired her to run for Senate, lost to incumbent Arlen Specter. Specter was criticized for his harsh questioning of Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings...