Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pound's marginalia, scribbled, indeed, with a stumpy pencil, mark the trail of an editor with a fine merciless eye for padding, preciosity or false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps...
...album are "Dirty Business" and "Henry". The "true" "Dirty Business" is one of the most malevolent songs I have ever experienced--and this does not quite come across on the album. In concert the song starts low and loose but builds and swells, pushed by Garcia's merciless use of the wah-wah, until it drains everyone who hears it--both musicians and audience. The story is High Noonish but their rendition is so powerful and tense that it makes you alternately sweat and shiver. Since the song is overwhelming in concert. I'm not sure that my judgment...
...presented at the trial was somewhat nebulous, the personalities involved certainly were not. The presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a traditional Yankee with little sympathy for radicals. The Prosecutor, District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann '96, was a cold, sharp, thin-lipped man of German descent who sought convictions with merciless persistence. And the original defense counsel, Fred Moore, was a leftist labor lawyer who sported long hair and often wore sandals to Court. Moore's appearance coupled with his constant objections to Katzmann's tactics, only strengthened Thayer's bias against the defendants...
...workaholic "drops out of the human community," Oates says, and "eats, drinks and sleeps his job." Every morning, he wakes at a set hour. At his office, he is "merciless in his demands upon himself for peak performance" and "without qualms about telling off both high and low" when their work is sloppy. Arriving home late, he heads for his study "to make the best of the remaining hours of the day," unable to tell the difference between simple loyalty and "compulsive overcommitment" to his employers. How does a workaholic know that he is one? Sometimes he finds out only...
...Jake is an inescapably likable John Wayne western. This time round, Big John plays a robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...