Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe: Dr. Pepper signs, juke joints, a greased-pig rodeo...
...makes it easier to get medicine into them. Instead of passing out penicillin tablets, service medics now usually give a long-acting form of the drug by injection. With medicines that must be taken by mouth, like sulfadiazine, the men swallow their pills while still in line, under the relentless eye of a medical officer. Similar precautions in hospitals will outwit any but the most determined evader. But in civilian practice, doctors can do little more than add information and persuasion to their prescriptions...
...this a portrait of youthful existence in Italy? It seems unlikely. As a case history, the trials of Enrica are both too relentless and too bizarre to be convincing-even though they are recounted with a grimly detailed, laconic realism that echoes the style of her mentor, Novelist Alberto Moravia...
...against the management of the University Library that culminated in a reorganization of Widener's system. At his irrepressible insistence, Harvard's diffuse studies of language were forged into a vigorous Department of Comparative Philology (the name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in the analysis of language has enabled this department to pioneer the new mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the thoroughly confirmed field of linguistics. In addition, Whatmough's outspokenness, and his unimpeachable sense of style make him a consistently fascinating...
...stubbornly antiheroic play with a mulishly magnificent heroine. It is an antiwar play that assumes war will never end. Coming from a Communist, it is an anti-bourgeois play, but it negates all ideologies by farcically reducing them to futility. It is a play ostensibly demonstrating the relentless sweep of history, but actually revealing the tenacious, indomitable life force in human beings that survives history. Finally, Mother Courage is a black, corrosive comedy that almost alone among 20th century plays approaches the purgative power of a major tragedy...