Word: harshness
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...figure among the trees, in the background on the left, sketchily furnishes the key: it is the Adam from Masaccio's Expulsion from Paradise. Kokoschka was being driven from his European paradise. He went to England and remained throughout the war. There he painted a number of harsh, hard-to-read political allegories, inspired by the cartoons of Gillray and other Georgian caricaturists, and supported himself by teaching and portraiture...
...Group Areas Act, which keeps blacks in townships far from city business districts and affluent white suburbs, remains a cornerstone of South Africa's policy. The government's harsh new controls on the domestic and foreign press, adopted since State President P.W. Botha declared a nationwide state of emergency on June 12, have further impaired the whites' vision and suppressed any struggling sensitivity to the plight of the country's 24 million blacks...
...above her, Roberta Blackgoat, 69, an elder of the Navajo tribe, stoops with a stick to scratch a rectangle in the northern Arizona desert. Beneath this sandy soil her ancestors for five generations have buried the umbilical cords of their newborn, a ritual affirmation of their link to this harsh and haunting land. Today, however, a land dispute with a neighboring tribe threatens to uproot Blackgoat and more than 10,000 other Navajo in a U.S. Government eviction unrivaled since the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World...
Reagan bristles at the notion that he is not popular among the nation's poor and among those who think his policies are harsh and uncharitable. It is only "propaganda," he insists, that his budgets have cut heavily into federal programs for nutrition and hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known...
...measures to grant security forces sweeping powers to control the turbulence that has wracked the country for the past 21 months. Critics charge that the proposals, which would allow police to detain people for up to 180 days without trial, will reinforce the apartheid system and virtually reinstitute the harsh state of emergency that was lifted on March 7. In a rare show of defiance, the Indian and mixed-race houses of the tricameral Parliament are blocking the bills. Meanwhile, white members of the ultraright Afrikaner Resistance Movement again clashed with police as they continued their campaign of disrupting meetings...