Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Lakers, the same team that had battled them on almost equal terms through six games in last season's championship playoffs. Slender Sam Jones poured in 14 points in the first quarter, and Boston Coach Red Auerbach cleared his bench. But even the substitutes were merciless: all twelve men wound up in the scoring column, and the Celtics clobbered the Lakers 114-78. Before the week was out, they had won two more, run their record...
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...