Word: mercilessly
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Within hours after her death, Marilyn Monroe faced her Last Judgment at the hands of TIME magazine. In quick, merciless thrusts your writer depicted early guilt, perverted dreams, and a "kittenish romance." It advanced a "death long in coming," "self-doubt," and just plain "body...
...talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved by what Bennett called Swinnerton's "mysterious touch of fundamental benevolence...
...Kennedy's labor friends might cause him more trouble than the enemies he recently earned among businessmen. Since the steel crisis, most of the U.S. has been waiting to see if he would meet wage-increase demands by Big Labor with the same merciless tactics. The President had journeyed to Atlantic City not to praise labor (though that was part of the ritual) but to admonish it in firm fashion to stay in line...
ANNA V. MCCAFFREY Cambridge, Mass. Sore Eros Sir: Your merciless lambasting of Eros [March 23] proves what enlightened people already know about your magazine: it is a dazzling editorial product with a predictably narrow viewpoint, and at the core, it is rotten...
Real comedy is never written in the spirit of good, clean fun (whatever that is), and the author of Roses is properly merciless in showing people living up to their personal and national stereotypes. But Susan Levine, a Wellesley senior, issues no bitter, damning statement on the nature of prejudice; in fact, she knows it can work two ways...