Word: harshness
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...Fliess, who Freud believed he had wronged by asking him to operate in a foreign city. Masson cannot seriously tarnish Freud's reputation as one of the great minds of recent times. His theories--including those on seduction--still have much to offer. But the author does cast a harsh light on Freud's sensitivity and humanity. The Assault on Truth occasions, new skepticism of Freud's character, and new sympathy for Emma Eckstein, who suffered so much for modern psychoanalytic theory...
...mullacracy extends the same harsh treatment to independent-minded individuals. In 1982 Khomeini betrayed few qualms about having his former right-hand man and Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, executed; last July, when his fiercest hanging judge, Ayatullah Mohammed Gilani, asked permission to spare 340 penitent political prisoners, the Ayatullah overruled him and sent them instantly to their deaths. The government continues to interpret "counterrevolution" broadly enough to cover a multitude of so-called sins. Homosexuals, drug dealers and unfaithful wives are all targets for the firing squads. A woman who neglects to wear her head scarf may find herself thrown...
...head of the Minneapolis Civil Liberties Union says, unkindly, that the ordinance "has no redeeming social value." That seems a bit harsh. Set aside for a moment the pseudo findings, the creative definitions, the ambiguities. The intent of the bill is to do away with the blight of pornography. What can be wrong with that...
...often flattens her role by overplaying it. When under the influence of drugs, she flits about the room like a somnambulist, babbling in a sing-song voice; all of a sudden, however, she whirls around and responds lucidly to the accusations of her husband and sons with a biting, harsh tirade...
...basic Reagan ethic of self-reliance that Dallek asserts pervades Reagan's policies as president. Moving onward, Dallek tries to show a panoply of instances in which Reagan actions reflect deep-seated personal values. He wants to find the bases of Reagan's abstractionist thought. What explains Reagan's harsh anti-Soviet evangelism? Dallek asks, as an example. "Reagan's rhetoric and actions suggest that in some fundamental way it is a symbolic protest against the state of his own nation." Dallek, in fact, shows rather convincingly that the entire plan of the Reagan administration is really based...