Word: pitilessly
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...necessity account for a universe of differences on an interconnected planet. Or perhaps we have come to dissociate knowledge from progress-a faith in progress being essential to Utopian thought-seeing instead every recent advance of the mind as merely one step, neither forward nor backward, along a huge, pitiless circle...
...farewell messages which annually fill this space, many of my predecessors have gotten the same subject out of context. They have erred toward excessive disdain, describing a Harvard that transformed classmates into sniveling pre-professional sycophants, traumatized by callous bureaucrats, elitist professors and pitiless academic advisors. Naturally, then, the beleaguered undergraduate wretches lack the heart for political commitment...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights (Hannibal). Stifled emotion, broken marriages, betrayal: a series of linked love songs on the year's most pitiless, passionate disc...
...just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
Shoot Out the Lights does not get heavy air play or make a dent in the charts-pitiless clarity not being a commodity eagerly sought in the Top 40-but it receives reverential notices. It also gets the Thompsons to America, Richard's first real visit in ten years, Linda's first ever. Their appearances become events. They are rites of passage for novitiates, acts of communion for initiates. The Thompsons in performance put on shows of acetylene brilliance, but these events for them are something else entirely. They are an ending...