Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Turning up at London's most merciless sacred-cow roast, Queen Elizabeth II chuckled her way through the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe with two other targets: Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Her Majesty's censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script...
...inauspicious time. The Republican Party was going through one of its darkest periods: there were just 16 G.O.P. members in the Senate. Bridges soon established himself as a staunch conservative and, as a ranking member of the Appropriations Committee (which he chaired during four sessions of Congress), a merciless money trimmer. But his conservatism applied mostly to domestic matters. Before World War II, he fought hard for Lend-Lease and increased military appropriations; after the war, he joined with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to back the Marshall Plan...
...talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died, at 65, of a heart attack...
...former A.E.F. or by Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. The fifth transcribed article, drawn from an interview with a South African representative, introduces Lewis Nkosi's bitter criticism of spartheid. Nkosi, an African who has been exiled from his native South Africa, believes that apartheid will lead to "a merciless cutting of heads...