Word: pitilessness
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...late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim of his own confused love affair and of the teacher's venom...
...teachers get CN $185,000 per month (about $15), so we are hardly able to live. ... I am unwilling to part from the Review, and I hope ... I may soon see it again. When? . . . Only when the terrible inflation stops, and there is an end to this pitiless civil war. Be this true...
Barbarous and murderous mother, Pitiless, heartless, she Threw her daughters down a well Where they died in misery...
Nobody's Force. "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. The human race is not divided up, in the Iliad, into conquered persons, slaves, suppliants, on the one hand, and conquerors and chiefs on the other. In this poem there is not a single man who does not at one time or another have to bow his neck to force...
...Zenith. Two years after Main Street, Novelist Lewis did a similar job for the U.S. small city (Zenith) and the U.S. businessman. George F. Babbitt, the rotund realtor, trapped in the dilemmas of middle-aged marriage and infidelity and the saurian rip and slash of pitiless business competition, was Lewis' most human and lovable character, as Babbitt was his most mature work...