Word: harshness
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...presidency of Ronald Reagan, marked by its harsh criticism of SALT II, signaled a new era in superpower diplomacy and heightened Talbott's interest in arms control. During the past three years, he has gathered information week by week, talking with officials at various levels in numerous agencies of the U.S. Government. He traveled to Moscow, Geneva, London and Bonn, interviewing North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesmen as well as experts from the Soviet Union. The result is a vivid look at what really happened as the representatives of the superpowers wrestled to find agreement at Geneva. This week...
Soviet stubbornness was sometimes downright belligerent. At a meeting in mid-June, Kvitsinsky delivered a harsh lecture in which he warned that any agreement other than the one the Soviets had proposed would be "unacceptable." He used the word over and over, until Nitze bridled. There was plenty in the Soviet proposal that the U.S. too could brand unacceptable, Nitze responded coldly. "Fine. Why don't you tell us what's unacceptable to you?" Kvitsinsky asked. "Because," Nitze replied, "I prefer to talk about objective realities and inequalities. It's not profitable to exchange charges of unacceptability...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...
...nothing inevitable about Dorothy Stratten's nightmare. The culprit in her case was not an evil system, but rather a society which fails to equip its young women with the facts and self-assertiveness necessary for them to make sensible decisions in a world that is free, but also harsh, hazardous, and confusing. Had Stratten recognized herself from the start as an individual with rights--despite her sex-kitten looks--she would have viewed herself as a corporation, instead of as an object of Snider's genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such as covergirl Carol...
...major spill brings a harsh rebuke from Soviet authorities