Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shrike is a relentless, gripping theater piece-one man's horror story that might easily be more than one man's fate. It is a tale of doors closing, one by one, until a door opens at the end-upon the outskirts of hell. Even its chief flaw as playwriting-it slightly scrambles the picture of an institution with the predicament of a man-enhances it as theater...
...strong that he could break horseshoes with his bare hands. In any group he would have been the center; it was his misfortune to become the center of a group which numbered several effeminates. At 24 he was indicted for sodomy. He was acquitted, but only after a relentless inquisition...
Bloodied Hands. After that, The Brigand moves to a relentless climax. Michele incites acts of violence against landowners, sets fire to their homes, and leads a pathetic peasant march to divide the big estates. He is driven to the hills as an outlaw, finally cornered and killed. Nino looks on helplessly, convinced that his friend is a victim of injustice, but realizing, too, that he was not the man to lead the peasants: "You could not carry justice to mankind with hands that were befouled with so much blood...
...with 525. The day after that, despite howls of protest, indignant editorials and black looks from every motorist, they handed out 520. At week's end, heartened perhaps by the news that cops in Bridgeport, Conn, were doing the same thing, they were still "enforcing the laws" with relentless and stony-faced glee...
World War II: Was a hard combat leader in the South Pacific. As a colonel training the 9th Regiment, he kept up a relentless pace (often 18 hours a day); his insistence on perfection earned him the nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early...