Word: mercilessly
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Married. Peter Cook, 25, lean and hungry-looking member of the merciless quartet of English satirists who wrote and became the stars of Broadway's long-running Beyond the Fringe; and Wendy Snowden, 23, his Cambridge sweetheart; in Manhattan...
...spring of 1932, the Art Students League of Manhattan sent a cable to Berlin Artist George Grosz, asking if he would consider a teaching post. The cable came just in time. In brilliant and merciless drawings, Grosz had been attacking German society since 1912; Hitler was one of his victims as early as 1923. Grosz knew he was in danger: he even had a dream in which a friend pleaded with him, "Why don't you go to America?" Grosz accepted the invitation and in time became a U.S. citizen...
...follows the current fad among Italian films of merciless misogyny. The first half is wildly funny, the second half movingly pathetic. These two virtues add up to a fault: after farce, pathos makes a bitter chaser...
...stage of Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts before 2,000 cheering fans, master and pupil embraced, close to tears at the hour of their triumph. After a life of study, three weeks of merciless competition, and a midnight wait for the jury's decision, a young Russian violinist named Alexei Michlin had won last week's Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, and there to share in the glory of it all was his teacher, David Oistrakh...
...years, Robinson Jeffers lived in isolation on the coast of California, preferring the company of hawks and vultures to that of people. His poems are filled with a scorn of mankind and a love of nature-not just of its beauty but of its violence, its merciless indifference. Jeffers' notion of Utopia was like no other: "The cities gone down, the people fewer and the hawks more numerous...