Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend. An early example of this was Birth of a Nation, which still stands alone; it gave American cinema an epic sense of the nation's history. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was another watershed film, with its stunning use of deep-focus photography and its merciless character analysis of that special U.S. phenomenon, the self-made mogul. John Ford's Stagecoach brought the western up from the dwarfed adolescence of cowboy-and-Injun adventures to the maturity and stature of a legend. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's Singin' in the Rain proved again...
Terrell beat Sterne 3-0 on Monday. After dropping the first game 15-3 Sterne battled back, but could not survive Terrell's merciless attack and lost the second and third games 15-13 and 16-14. Gonzales edged Sterne 3-1 on Wednesday...
Harry Jergeson, after two fine wins of 5-1, 5-0, avenged Amerikaner in his third bout by taking a rapid, merciless 5-0 decision...
...terror as a reviewer--and treated mediocre work from his friends as a personal reproach. But merciless as his criticism was, the poets treasured it. "I wrote to the mind of Randall Jarrell," Adrienne Rich writes and many of the contributors like her recognize Jarrell's capacity for understanding just what they were trying to do in their poetry, telling them when and how they failed, and encouraging them to keep going. "Twice or thrice, I think he must have thrown me a lifeline," Lowell says...
...subject of his successful criticism weren't always so happy. While he could communicate his enthusiasms with joyful immediacy, he could and did destroy bad books with a few merciless phrases. "He was immensely cruel," John Berryman writes, "and the extraordinary thing about it is that he didn't know he was cruel." Jarrell had some pity for bad poets ("it is as if writers had sent you their ripped out arms and legs with 'This is a poem' scrawled on them in lipstick.") but he could write nothing kind about their poems. And even a few of his memorialists...