Word: mercilessness
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...agent to the abandoned worlds of imperialism. Naipaul was born in Trinidad of Hindu descent and, like Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, made England his home. Like Conrad, Naipaul writes of social upheaval, solitude, madness and evil, but as they apply to the colonized, not the colonizers. And he is merciless...
...statement sent from his new home of exile in Gorky, he charged that the Kremlin had "launched a broad demagogic campaign aiming to strengthen its military superiority" in the world. The culmination of this dangerous Soviet policy, said Sakharov, was the "invasion of Afghanistan, where Soviet soldiers are waging merciless war" against the people of Afghanistan...
...just troubled ones, need structure and responsibility to get through adolescence. Says he: "You can't change anybody. All you can do is set up a supportive, warm, natural environment and then a natural process takes over." But all is not sweetness and light. At endless and merciless dorm meetings, rationalizations and excuses are brusquely dismissed as "bullshit," perhaps the most commonly used word on campus...
...hallowed State Opera. When he begins his pit stops there in 1982, Maazel will face the unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic, can be merciless to leaders they do not respect. In this century alone, three illustrious predecessors-Gustav Mahler, Karl Bohm and Herbert von Karajan-all threw down batons and left in their huffs before their contracts were due to expire...
...evidence? I can assure you that any abuses will be punished. It is very easy [for people] to make all these accusations and then say that we are afraid to testify. One has to be fair to [the military]. But we can be ruthless and merciless if necessary. We have disciplined more than 3,200 officers and men since...