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...Anti-business." thundered the Sunpapers. "A merciless blow," agreed the Baltimore Federation of Labor. Retorted Tommy: "Crybaby nonsense...
...salute to its liberator had stopped reverberating in Tunisia, NBC Commentator Chet Huntley had set up his lights and cameras in the tiled office of popular President Habib ("Beloved") Bourguiba. Wearing a dark Western business suit and a TV-blue shirt, greying, rock-jawed Bourguiba doughtily faced seven merciless hours of grilling in the TV glare. For U.S. consumption, Newsman Huntley stretched Outlook's normal half hour to a full 60 minutes, during which he also trekked through the ruins of Carthage, briefed viewers on Tunisia's tortuous history, and relayed some of the excitement attending Bourguiba...
...worth a spill of rice paper. Yet somehow it may be fascinating as an example of the kind of charm which, incomprehensibly, industrious Pearl Buck has exercised over a generation of U.S. women readers-and even over the Nobel Prize committee. Perhaps unintentionally, the book gives a portrait of merciless maternalism. The real crisis comes when young Rennie, forgetting that father Gerald in Peking has forbidden him to use any but the "stately name of Mother," comes out with the awful truth...
...willing tool of the Western imperialists and capitalists. I recited fully the lesson I had spent a year and a half learning." What made tough, hawk-nosed Ignotus accept his lesson? Says he: "Koestler is right. The emphasis is put on the psychological part of the treatment, the dogged, merciless, relentless job of indoctrination. But the torture-maybe Koestler underestimated that. The torture is horror...
Offensively, however, Northeastern has been sporadic, with even its best efforts falling below what has, been necessary to outscore the varsity. After taking a merciless beating from Boston University, the Huskies bounced back to show reasonable strength in their next encounters...