Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island. A Japanese silent (nobody says a word) that describes with relentless monotony the hard but beautiful life of a Japanese family who struggle to exist on a barren island in Japan's Inland...
...what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance to win his freedom by winning a big race for the greater glory of the Guv'nor, the lad leads the way right...
...Common Market issue also seemed to threaten a split in the Tory Party as it met for its annual conference, just as Labor's earlier move against the Market had threatened to split the nation. Yet the relentless logic of politics brought overwhelming victory to the Tories' pro-Market forces (see Great Britain...
...Western alliance, as usu al, seemed in disarray, and practical moves toward Western European unity were for the time being suspended. Yet the relentless logic of what Harold Macmillan called Europe's new Renaissance made it plain that union will come, and that it will strengthen the alliance...
Finally, gloom was inspired by France, where, in theory at least, the government had fallen, evoking evil memories of the chaotic Fourth Republic. Yet the relentless logic of Charles de Gaulle suggested that he will win his presidential referendum (TIME. Sept. 21 ), and that, one way or another, he will probably survive the subsequent parliamentary elections. A French cartoonist caught the idea when he switched a famed line and had De Gaulle say: "After the deluge...