Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
...F.L.N. against the French in Algeria. His journey turns into what might be called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former life, or is he really bent on revolutionizing the world by fighting for Communism and the Algerians? The relentless sun becomes a more formidable combatant than the French, the endless sand a more unarguable reality than any dialectic...
SOMEWHERE IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER, Aug. 5--Undaunted by the fact that he has long been conceded to be out of the running, governor John A. Volpe today continued his relentless campaign for the vice-presidency...
With their vast and relentless power of amplification, the writers of commercials sprinkle more tag lines and catch phrases into the conversation than the poets, fettered to their paper and print, can ever hope to put into the American idiom. "A little dab'll do ya," "Fly the friendly skies" and "Leave the driving to us" are in fact a kind of pop poetry...
Overwhelming Irony. With the possible exception of John Kenneth Galbraith, most American critics embarked on a similar analysis of the U.S. would be likely to castigate their own culture in the stern and relentless manner of modern Cotton Mathers. But the French manage to be amusing, or at least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection...