Word: pitilessness
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...angriest editorials it has printed in years, the Times of London asked: "If Colonel Lohan was cleared, why refer to the inquiry? If it found against him, then how did he remain in his post until 1967?" Against tactics like Wilson's, said the Times, "so pitiless, so adroit, so lacking in scruple, so strongly enhanced by the authority of a Prime Minister's office, no man's character is safe...
...hope. [For] we know, that however we have misused it, we are the principal trustees in this century of a great heritage of human freedom under God. Now at last the issue is joined: either our ideals as free men shall dominate in this century, or the pitiless bayonets of our enemies will." December...
...Pieces. A bleak story, surely, and an old one. But Helen Hudson, who cast a cold eye on college professors in an excellent first novel, Tell the Time to No One, has a pitiless yet imaginative gaze. To one of her subjects, Sunday in the city is "a great gap surrounded by walls, emptied of one week and not yet filled with the next." To another, "Christmas is a hateful time; the bunting was pretending to tie up a whole city into one cozy bundle. But the string was too slack. Odd pieces like Meyer kept falling...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A pitiless exposure of poverty among Puerto Rican Americans, whose life stories are told largely by the subjects themselves into Anthropologist Lewis' tape recorder...
...barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...