Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listen. There is no compromise with a machine. You cannot talk Peace and Love to a human or a robot whose every federal bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, humorless, lifeless, loveless...
...particular meant little to him. A publisher once got the poet's approval before signing up an early biographer. Frost gave it, but finding another writer even more idolatrous, he awarded him the exclusive rights-leaving the publisher with two authors for one book. He was probably most heartless to an admiring young poet, Raymond Holden. In 1919, he offered Holden half his Franconia, N.H., property, with the proviso that Holden must buy the rest if Frost should ever move. Unknown to Holden, Frost was already planning to live in Vermont. "I had not only contributed to his desire...
...tells her, but she wonders: "What was the game?" She is still melancholic over her mother's death. She can scarcely focus on the few roles she gets. Her husband behaves either like a nagging parent or a smart-aleck child. Her friends are a menacing cadre of heartless hedonists-careless to the bone, drinking, turning on, brutalizing each other in word and sexual deed...
...begins as he will go on, in poignant yet heartless atrocity. Here is a crowded Sunday Square. Death rings a handbell, but to the strollers, "Ah. church is over." Now a baby is dead in its carriage. Now look, they are all dying, even the good housewife, whose last words are that "lunch is not ready!" Now here is the rich man in his house, servants spraying the air, puttying up the windows; now see how his face turns black, how he falls, how Death carts him away, how the fleeing servants are forced back inside by police with machine...