Word: harshness
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...speak of Bush's "hideous betrayal" and how "only the willfully ignorant can trust anything this man says about the Middle East." Well, I must be one of those "willfully ignorant" to trust a man who rescued a country from a harsh invasion and did it with an unprecedented straightforwardness and competence...
Before he died, Atwater apologized to Dukakis and others for the harsh personal attacks and mudslinging that marked the 1988 campaign -- and were a hallmark of his career. "Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people," he said. That deathbed conversion had to be difficult for Bush. The President may harbor misgivings about the mudslinging of the campaign, much of which he opposed initially. "He and Mrs. Bush were always a little ambivalent about Lee," said an official last week. In recent weeks Bush has chatted with unusual intimacy with at least one top aide about...
...more than 93 miles, set aside a portion of oil revenues to pay claims arising from its invasion of Kuwait, and swear to respect its 1963 border with that country. On Saturday, Baghdad formally accepted in a 23-page letter to the U.N. that also complained the resolution was harsh and unjust. But, said Saadi Mahdi Saleh, speaker of Iraq's parliament, "we have no alternative but to accept." A U.N. observer force will move into the border areas, allowing the U.S. and allied troops occupying southern Iraq to head home. The Saddam regime, if it survives at all, will...
...studio she could be harsh. She spoke in a whisper that was louder than a shout. On occasion she laughed heartily at her students' efforts. "With Martha," Richard Boone once said, "you get it right away or jump out the window." Glen Tetley, a protege in the 1950s, went on to become a ballet choreographer. Just before his first major premiere, he developed crippling back spasms; no one else knew his role. Graham solved the problem. Spying him in a cafeteria, she walked over and slapped his face hard. "You stand up there and go out and dance," she commanded...
...Such a harsh and inclusive indictment will raise further questions about the partisanship and competence of the historians as well as about Reagan. Their judgments are strikingly out of phase with those of the electorate. "A crushing 91.8% of historians believe that the American people have overestimated Mr. Reagan," writes Blessing. Put another way, the scholars think that the plain folks did not quite understand what was going...