Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither the relentless logic of the Student Council nor the pious platitudes of the administration has changed any attitudes toward parietals lately. The eternal issue will be no more than that until students become interested in persuading the Faculty rather than convincing themselves...
...Faure is a comforter, Bruckner is a seer. In the Te Deum he probes the cosmos with dramatic horn calls, crescendos and sforzandos, threading the strident opening arpeggio throughout his relentless score, and develops leaps of an octave and fifth into a towering mystical insight into the universe. When a Faure melody rises, we feel that it is doing so only to fall back to rest; when Bruckner moves upward his chromatic alterations impel the music to a new height of transfiguration. Indeed, the Te Deum proclaims less traditional Christianity than a musical cosmology, and this performance treated...
Intimate Enmity. The earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first...
...some of his work is too crude to observe anything but the most superficial aspects of his subjects; yet he does well enough with J. P. Marquand. "Outside my window the river lay opalescent in the twilight, but for a moment I saw it as a dark and relentless torrent bearing me on into the unknowable future, and I shuddered," is not remarkable for its wit, but the next sentence--"I didn't want to get married; I just wanted to go back to Harvard"--excuses the rest. I like the ending especially: "Things often work out a lot better...
...sentencing were 29 electrical-equipment companies, headed by the industry's two "competitive" giants, General Electric and Westinghouse, and 44 of their executives. Long ago, faced with incontrovertible evidence gathered by the Eisenhower Administration's relentless trustbusters, the companies and individuals had pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to charges that they conspired over the past seven years to fix prices and rig bids in the sale of some $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment (TIME, Feb. 29, 1960, et seq.). Now the moment of reckoning had come. First before the court came the lawyer...