Word: harshness
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Save for the celluloid immortality enjoyed by a few of the residents here, they are all, of course, as defenseless against decline as any other aged flesh and mind: the tolerance is gone for noise, harsh light, the unexpected; a sidewalk curb is no more easily managed than an escarpment. But it is different in here. There isn't, for example, the palpable sadness that is so striking in other institutions where people are growing very old. It isn't happy all the time, exactly, but neither is the air so thick with loneliness, to say nothing...
...excessive. Statistics show that fewer than 1% of freed murderers kill again after their release from prison, in part because of their advanced age. But if capital punishment is abandoned, it may make sense, politically and emotionally, to permit the public some vengeful satisfaction. Life without parole is unimaginably harsh. But it would be a way occasionally to formalize the revulsion at Charles Manson and his ilk. As it is, Manson will be eligible for parole...
...Dreaming" presents one of Kate Bush's most disturbing worlds. Singing in the harsh Aussie accent of an outback miner, she expresses the victorious hubris of a developer crushing a primitive society like a kangaroo under the wheels...
...daughter of missionaries, I found your story neither rosy nor harsh. The threat of cultural destruction has always been a concern of informed and tolerant missionaries. Problems arise when the occasional incompetent is prone to ignorance, stubbornness and shortsightedness...
Behind those remarkable forecasts are harsh political realities that may affect Israel, its Arab neighbors and its U.S. ally for generations to come. The accelerated building program runs directly counter to the Reagan Administration's efforts to launch talks aiming toward a broad Middle East peace settlement. Last September, President Reagan offered a peace plan under which the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would become associated with Jordan. He called on Israel to halt its expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, hoping that such a step would bring Jordan to the bargaining table. Prime Minister Menachem Begin...