Word: mercilessness
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...finally decides that there is only one clear way into "the company of men," i.e., by becoming as merciless, as cruel and as cowardly as men all seem to be. At the end of a long police chase, in which he has sought in vain for a single person capable of a disinterested act of charity, he shoots Vanderputte-the only human being who has done him a kindness since his father's death...
...Look Homeward, Angel's schoolmam Margaret Leonard, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "It was the most tranquil and the most passionate face he had ever seen . . . If he noticed her emaciation at all now, it was only with a sense of her purification . . . One by one the merciless years reaped down his gods and captains. What had lived up to hope? . . . Enduring, a victorious reality amid his shadow-haunted heart, she remained, who first had touched his blinded eyes with light, who nested his hooded houseless soul...
...taken between two escorts up two flights of stairs into a small office . . . On the wall to my left was a picture of Lenin, on the opposite wall a frame with the phrase 'Merciless Fight Against Foreign Agents...
...underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself into the best role of his career with all his hoofer's timing and energy, makes befuddled Willie just as funny, human and enormously likable as he ought...
Vast Doublecross. Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's most serious attack on the modern superstate, but he had made others. In 1946 had come Animal Farm, a merciless satire on the Soviet regime that was as enlightening as it was hilarious, as persuasive as it was just. Even now, with reams of confessions by disillusioned revolutionists in the record, Animal Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946) remains the best manual on the doublecross of Stalinism...