Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...Western Europe seems to share the problem. French labor and business are chafing under a strict economic-stabilization program designed to lower the growth rate from 7.5% to 4.5%-and prices and wages with it. By imposing a merciless credit hold-down, Italy braked industrial growth from 5% to 1.5% last year. Along with the other problems of its economy. Britain is alarmed by its quickened wage-price spiral. The cost of living has jumped 4.6% in the sharpest twelvemonth rise in a decade, and British housewives this month found that prices had risen for some 3,200 different grocery...
...machine-gunned by his own cronies. Marlowe himself is brutally "worked over" in an alley, knocked out with a loaded fist, shot at twice, wounded once, and almost raped by one of his clients. Altogether, there are seven murders (four on the screen) and four merciless beatings--enough to catharsise anyone's sadistic impulses...
From the superb scenes of war, insurrection, interrogation and factory work to the jargon of "Marxist selfcriticism" sessions, Communist life has rarely been subjected to such a panoramic survey by such a merciless pen. But Author
...about to rebound. "The giant is now stirring," says Sir Leon Bagrit, "and at last a determined effort to modernize is about to begin." It had better begin soon. In the new world war of hard international trade, the panzers of the more progressive trading nations are often merciless. With too many gentlemen amateurs still in command, the British economy is still badly outgunned...