Word: harshness
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Haskell, a well-known feminist, comes to appreciate the instincts that link women "with their inborn sense of suffering," which takes her beyond simplistic movement ideology. "Envy and all the harsh judgments . . . are suspended as we return to some primal bond, where nurturing preceded rivalry." But as comforting as the bonds forged in the intensive-care unit are, she doubts they can last. "Friendships should begin slowly . . . If the opening chords are the life and death notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, there's no place to go from there...
Farrakhan's harsh rhetoric and anti-Semitic remarks have frightened whites and obscured the impact of the Nation's work in the black community. But his firebrand approach has also won over some blacks. "He is respected in the black community for his audacity," says Howard University political science professor Ronald Walters. "Supporting Farrakhan has become a way of hitting back at the system and expressing black public opinion." Says Abdul Wazir Muhammad, minister of the Muslims' Los Angeles Mosque: "We are a barometer of the conditions and feel of the black community. If you really want to know...
...string bean, either," another friend of mine said meaningfully. Then they both laughed at that, and one of us cried, "Harsh." Unduly so, because, in a way, that was the cruelest kind of dismissal...
...fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction of making a contribution to science -- in this case, collecting data about an animal that has the intriguing...
Monet's reply to anti-impressionist prejudice, Tucker argues, was to broaden - the base and subject matter of his work. He wanted to show that the greatest landscape painting in France could still be produced by impressionist means. "Nature should not be submitted to harsh, premeditated analysis, as in the Grande Jatte," he writes of Monet's attitude. "It should be allowed to reign in the painting as it does in the world -- resplendent in all its nuances, variants, subtleties and surprises...