Word: mercilessly
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...stories come from another talented Southern lady whose work is highly unladylike. Still in her late twenties, and the product of a college writing class (State University of Iowa), Georgia's Flannery O'Connor has already learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct...
Once a year in Guatemala, everything that is revered, respectable, powerful or pompous gets powerful but highly irreverent ribbing. The occasion is the traditional Eastertide Strike of students at the University of San Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits...
...R.A.E." Man. The East is merciless to cripples. Their families hide them as a horror and disgrace, or turn them out to beg; they hop about on sticks, or crawl on all fours like maimed animals. Some 20,000 of these armless or legless were left in the wake of the Korean war. Three years ago a group of U.S. Christian missionaries set out to help them, and Amputee Torrey found the work for which his whole life seemed a proving ground...
...FIRE-RAISERS, by Marris Murray, was one of the best entries in the year's huge literary safari to Africa. It was a merciless diagnosis of what its South African author calls "Africa sick ness," the complex of racial snobbery, fear and prejudice which has poisoned the lives of her white characters...
...League, while Harvard beat Princeton (14-9) for the first time in eight years, Yale was humiliated by Army's merciless Black Knights...