Word: harshness
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...cream. Her experience shows how people's views are shaped by the price hikes that affect them. Rose watched the wild black raspberries that give tang to her bestselling raspberry chocolate truffle flavor zoom from $31 per gal. to $107.50 per gal. after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "I look at the inflation numbers...
Bastardy was the harsh, old-fashioned word, then illegitimacy, but now the letter asks a little desperately about a "nonmarital family." The husband in the affair has a nonmarital wife who is doing her best "not to keep things secret" and a nonmarital child of nine who "knows what the dynamics are." But there is also the marital wife who "knows, but tries to ignore the nonmarital family," plus some teen-age children who "sense something amiss." The husband is struggling-manfully, one might say-to deny everything. So, the letter asks, what would be "the ideal social relationship" among...
...appearance but truly complex. Jennings and designer Albert Webster deserve plaudits for the sheer cleverness of the entire three-level set rising from under a bare white cover, suggesting a reborn Phoenix rising from the embers of the protagonist's imagination. Less successful, however, are the rather eerie and harsh sounding original score and the flashing colored lights in the background, tending to be more an annoying distraction than a subtle evocation of mood...
...confrontations of the presidential contenders on television are designed more for harsh human drama than enlightenment. Bored with endless months of caravan politics, the opposing camps whip up national interest in the same way that boxing promoters try to build a big gate. There is talk of keeping the pressure on, of pounding away at this issue or that, of drawing blood, even of scoring a knockout. In the debate itself, the candidates try to look and talk tough. Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates...
League organizers say that what may have started as gamesmanship to unnerve the other side simply got out of hand. Says one participant: "A certain dynamism took over. One party became very harsh, and the other side then said, 'All right, we'll do the same thing.' " Of the first dozen names submitted, the Democrats reportedly agreed to five, the Republicans to just one: James Wieghart, national political correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and former editor of the New York Daily News. After rejecting another group proposed by the League, each campaign countered with suggested names...