Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film, in pursuing the train of events rather than an understanding of them, frustrates but also entices the audience. It takes fragmentary and superficial perspectives and with relentless music keeps up an arbitrary pace. The film consciously seems to pattern the conventional crime film, down even to the priest on death row. With maddening coyness, In Cold Blood is constantly implying that it knows more than what it is letting...
Television, that relentless blazer of old trails, opened some fresh territory for a change last week. On NBC, retired Astronaut John Glenn, 46, premiered his Great Explorations series with "The Trail of Stanley and Livingstone." And on ABC, The Undersea World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau cycle was launched with "Sharks...
...signs of a readiness to move away from consensus and toward leadership. He will have to, if he is going to cope with a host of social maladies that were but dimly perceived a decade ago. Whatever his shortcomings in terms of personality and performance, none but his most relentless critics can fault his desire to cope with those problems. The greatest Presidents are those who emerged during periods of severe strain, domestic or foreign. Johnson still has a chance to stand among them...
...increase in tuition has been made necessary by the relentless upward pressures on our educational costs. The dilemma posed by increased costs is one we share with all the major private universities of the country," Johnson said...
...would be benefits from the appointment of a fresh person." He is only 51, but for six years and eleven months McNamara has usually worked a six-day week, twelve hours or more a day, with scant vacation for physical relaxation and no mental release at all from the relentless pressure of running an establishment now spending some $76 billion a year and employing 4,500,000 people. This year he has had to bear the added strain of his wife Marge's illness. "She has my ulcer," McNamara has said casually, hinting that his worries have rubbed...