Word: harshness
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This new thinking is not found everywhere, to be sure, but in many places professors contend it is becoming dominant. While American universities and colleges have always been centers for the critical examination of Western assumptions and beliefs, the examination has taken a harsh and strident turn. At times it amounts to a mirror-image reversal of basic assumptions held by the nation's majority...
Further, he suggested that they start with small steps or "confidence- buildi ng measures." Israel, for example, could reopen West Bank universities that have been closed for three years and ease its harsh policies of arresting and deporting suspected Palestinian troublemakers. The Arabs, in return, could end their formal states of belligerency against Israel (Saudi Arabia, Syria and several other countries are officially still at war with what they term the "Zionist entity") and call off their boycott of foreign companies that do business with the Jewish state. The idea is that if each side could overcome its fear...
Later Cheever dealt with some of these proscribed items, but never in the tone of the journals. Here they appear in a harsh floodlight, personified by Cheever himself. The author's idiosyncrasies are no longer secret: in Home Before Dark, Susan's ambivalent 1984 memoir, her father is described as "the worst kind of alcoholic." Her brother Ben, who edited a volume of Cheever's letters, recalled that John was "bisexual all his life . . . He liked good- looking younger men." Still, these were posthumous comments, made by members of the family that Cheever alternately cherished and regarded as a self...
While it took months for Desert Shield to be transformed into Desert Storm, U.S. policymakers were scrambling for cover within days of the invasion, trying to defend their actions from the harsh judgments of hindsight. The great "Who lost Kuwait?" debate was on. Revisionism was rampant. But what was clear was that the roots of a failed policy went back more than a decade. The American embrace of Saddam Hussein began on Nov. 4, 1979, when the Islamic revolutionaries who had overthrown the Shah of Iran seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. That cataclysmic event...
Several days after the Kirkland flag made its debut, another flag appeared--this time in the window of Cabot House resident Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92. McCormack said he made his display to protest what he called an unduly harsh criticism of Kerrigan's flag...