Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems. Although [they] stress the importance of change and creativity, [they] fail to specify or elaborate." Why do they feel so sharply the necessity for their movement? Because liberalism is inadequate, doctrinaire, stultifying, and "monolithic." They worry that "solutions should by default take the form of the gradual but relentless authoritarianism of the left...
...Home. A well-acted, deeply moving adaptation, retaining much of the poetry and relentless power of James Agee's Knoxville chronicle, A Death in the Family...
...right, as counsel for the Senate labor-management rackets committee. As he unfolded the sordid exposé of corruption and crime in the Teamsters and other big unions, Bobby momentarily overshadowed Jack, and his curled-lip intensity and Yankee twang became a television staple. It was a skillful, relentless and aggressive investigation, conducted at the man-killing pace that has become Bob Kennedy's trademark. When Jack decided to run for the presidency, Bobby cheerfully reverted to a supporting role to become campaign manager. The dogged, hair-raising-and winning-battle he directed for 15 months awed and often...
...knowing what to do with their bodies or souls," The Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...
...deal to be said for it. Though hardly a play, much of it proved vividly playable. Mosel, clearly respecting the book preserved much of Agee's feeling for people and of his sense of mood and scene, and transmitted a poetic nature that never surrendered its realistic indeed relentless eye. The best moments in All the Way Home illuminate; the best scenes are truly moving...