Word: pitilessness
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...simple tragedies of the everyday into the stuff of folk legend, and letting the stories flow through melodies that seem to have been tapped from some deep Celtic wellspring. The music, fresh, strong and startling, has ancient reverberations and contemporary overtones. Each song has the clenched power and pitiless clarity of a Francis Bacon painting...
...past year this eclectic off-Broadway group has mounted a wryly tender A Taste of Honey, fired off an ebulliently witty Misalliance, weighed hypocrisy and humanity on the scales of The Browning Version, and now burnishes a high comedy of manners with Enid Bagnold's civilized, pitiless and elliptical The Chalk Garden...
...peace? Probably both were genuine. Was the peace of which he spoke only the stillness of Soviet hegemony, or an acceptance of coexistence? Again, almost surely both. The Bolshevik believed in the prevalence of material and military factors; the aged leader was exhausted by the exactions of a pitiless system. Doubtless, no more than any other Soviet leader would Brezhnev resist a chance to alter the power balance; nothing can relieve us of the imperative of preparedness. But within that constraint, some leaders, driven by the impossibility of suppressing human aspiration forever, may emerge who seek true coexistence. The West...
...back porch, for 42 remaining sophomores, the suspense has reached its most pitiless climax. Since almost everyone who was inside has gone home now and the porch has long been growing chilly, the 100 percenters are permitted to move into the Ivy dining room. They can see the silver candelabras now and the rows of empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to 35 as the discouraging hours pass, then 6 give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another 6 are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent...
...simply cannot behave otherwise. The same is true of Communism; driven by a malevolent and irrational instinct for world domination, it cannot help seizing ever more lands. Communism is something new, unprecedented in world history; it is fruitless to seek analogies. All warnings to the West about the pitiless and insatiable nature of Communist regimes have proved to be in vain because the acceptance of such a view would be too terrifying. (Did not the Afghan tragedy in fact take place two years ago? But the West shut its eyes and postponed recognizing the problem-all for the sake...