Word: harshness
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Doctors are loath to admit that patients may be dying because they cannot get proper treatment in overcrowded emergency rooms. Indeed, under such harsh conditions, they are rightly proud of the high level of expert care they maintain. But in some hospitals, as volume grows, there are bound to be errors: in 1988, for example, the New York State health department reported that poor patient care was at least partly responsible for twelve deaths that year at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. In one case, a 30-year-old woman with chest pains died after waiting 5 1/2 hours...
...helped organize the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, part of an organization set up by Soviet dissidents to monitor human rights violations, but two years later he was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp and five of internal exile for anti-Soviet activities. He suffered extremely harsh treatment. At the end of Orlov's trial, a scuffle broke out when his friends were barred from entering the courtroom to hear the verdict. I hit one KGB agent; Lusia, receiving a sharp blow to the neck from another, smacked him back, but as she was being shoved into a police...
...early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion for losers," had some harsh words for his own upbringing, saying "Religion was pounded into us so much that I was saved seven or eight times...
...rite for themselves, Mormons may repeat it over and over for the vicarious benefit of dead relatives. But by some accounts, the number performing such "temple work" has been falling off. A briefer, modernized ritual could help reverse that trend. Says Mormon author Allen Roberts: "The ceremony is less harsh, less threatening, less offensive...
Perhaps today's youth is unshockable. And perhaps that fact should be shocking. "One of the things we all seek," says Clive Barker, "is the visionary experiences we had as children. We seem to have forgotten that those experiences are not soft and gentle, but often harsh and intense." For several American generations, a child's first entertainment experience was a Disney cartoon, with its wrenching traumas of betrayal, abandonment, a mother's death. An animated film could thrill a child to pieces or scare him near to death. And it introduced him to the beautiful and frightening banquet...