Word: crueler
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When he was a younger and a crueler man, T. S. Eliot once sketched himself...
Although Summer School students will be able to participate in the regular operations which lead to a weekly paper, they will not be subjected to the extensive competition system which prevails during the crueler months...
...much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons is Maureen Stapleton's brilliantly funny and disturbingly lifelike portrait of the wife...
...surprising that Coccioli fails to bring off this master throw. "How incapable I am of explaining!" writes one of his characters of Don Ardito. "What was there about his words that makes them ring with such intensity? ... I could weep over my own ineptitude. It is all the crueler because as soon as I stop writing I can see the essence of his secret in absolute clarity...
...Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...