Word: harshness
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...weeding out system is based on what I call "the myth of genius." It is not only harsh but unfair and a failure. The process of "separating the men from the boys" mainly separates those who have had the material before from those who have...
...opposing the overly harsh tactics used by the police and the inane (or perhaps unthinking) collaborative effort of The Crimson in publishing the names of seven of those arrested, I am scolded by the editors of this revered daily for proposing "a blanket defense of anonymous sex in public places." We proposed no such thing...
...Verster contrasts sharply with the years of hard labor he endured on Robben Island, a penal colony across from Cape Town Harbor where he was incarcerated for nearly two decades. For the first ten years he swung a pickax in a limestone quarry, breaking boulders into gravel. But the harsh punishment only strengthened his resolve, and he directed his anger into a crusade for better prison conditions. "To us," says Steve Tshwete, an A.N.C. guerrilla leader imprisoned for 15 years, "he represented the correctness of our cause and the inevitability of our victory...
...hope that his fortunes may improve and the knowledge that, if he survives, he may spend the rest of his days in fruitless litigation. But his adventures call to mind a host of other Victorian novels as well. He is sent briefly to a Yorkshire school and enters the harsh world of Nicholas Nickleby; he overhears a former governess tell her life story, and the events and diction take on the coloration of Jane Eyre...
...same time that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is facing separatist challenges in several of his country's 15 republics, Eastern Europe is discovering that the ancient animosities suppressed for more than four decades by Moscow's harsh imperialism are rising again. These ethnic and nationalistic quarrels are the products of decades of wars, treaties and cynical deals between dictators that moved the borders of countries but often left their people behind. At the end of the 20th century, national minorities are everywhere. By some estimates, several hundred thousand ethnic Germans are still in Poland and 200,000 in Rumania. More...