The Army, waging a war in Vietnam with so many black kids, was afraid of the influence the most famous black man would have, so it tried to make a harsh example of him.
But some analysts today viewed the attacks, which killed at least 29 people, including 7 Americans and 9 of the attackers, as a harsh example of what happens when extremism in any form is allowed to run unchecked.
With winter food shortages looming ("We will still have sheep and potatoes" is how one Icelander put it to me) and people paying others to take on their now prohibitively-expensive car loans, Iceland has been dealt a very real and harsh example of the importance of prudence in the face of ambition and greed.
The Carson case is just a harsh example.
Despite the fact that the prosecuting attorney had stated that Kemba herself had never bought, sold or trafficked any drugs, the judge issued the 24.5-year sentence in a federal prison to set a harsh example.
Mr. Giuliani's refusal to express sympathy to the Dorismond family at the time of the shooting in March and his attempt to discredit the victim, which shocked even Republicans, has been called the harshest example of the mayor's aggressive style.
A week after taking office, she sent back to parliament a new language law, criticised by the West as well as by Russia, that was excessively harsh; for example, it insisted that private commercial transactions should be in Latvian.
There is also some incoherence of rhythm, as well as harsh elisions and examples of unusual prosody.
Manet, who is for many the first truly modern painter, seemed to epitomize this antiauthoritarian, counterestablishment attitude, by reason of his harsh Realism, for example, in the notorious, sexually suggestive Olympia (1863), as well as in the apparent Impressionism of such works as Chez Pére Lathuille (1879) and White Lilac in a Glass (1880).
