Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance, and Percy's subsequent smarmy retraction. Moreover, TV's steady eye on the hearings produced what no amount of print reporting could do: a dramatic switch of public sympathy to Lance, who, despite the damaging admissions he had to make, carried himself more impressively under relentless scrutiny than any other congressional witness within memory...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...unbuilt showpieces, like Hilbersei-mer's high-rise city or Le Corbusier's ville mdieuse, are detached and scary: vast tower blocks, broad relentless avenues, a crushing regimentation. The idealism of the functionalist heroes (Mies especially) has the perfect internal unity of farce. It belonged to the same order of ideas as Albert Speer's designs for Hitler-a totalitarianism of structure. But they linger on paper as the dream architecture of the 20th century. Because these termitaries were never built, they could not be destroyed _ Robert Hughes
Though The Widower's Sons falls far short of that earlier mark, it still captures the individual class-struggle that is Sillitoe's strength. His latest book deals with William Scorton, a sargeant major's son, who through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...
Lance is not likely to be queuing at Safire's window any time soon. Despite his fondness for the now defrocked Budget Director, Safire was one of Lance's most relentless journalistic tormentors. The columnist began writing about Lance's alleged financial improprieties in July, and a week before Lance bowed out Safire even conjured up an eloquent, 946-word television address in which the President announced that Bert and LaBelle were going home. Carter used...