Word: heartlessly
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...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...
...Front Page, a play written more than 40 years ago, drew a portrait of the heartless Chicago newspaper reporter. Is he as rough and tough today? Or have there been mellowing influences? (See THE PRESS...
...rage against "a heartless country in which the poor get poorer." Alas, poor Yoricks: The decline of poverty in the U.S. is among the more astonishing and hopeful facts of human history. (In 1900, about 90% of our population was poor; in 1920--50%; in 90% 1930--34%; in 1968-15%). You will cry that 15% is outrageous. Agreed. The question is: How best abolish it? (A negative income tax makes more sense than anything your colleagues propose...
...hear them now the heartless bitches...