Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fewer Knives. Some critics, observing the Georgians' fierce loyalty to their boss, have suggested that Carter could be creating his own imperial presidency; he is surrounded by a palace guard that, despite its relentless informality, is a palace guard nonetheless. That does not seem likely. Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "There is within the Carter White House less jockeying and fewer glinting knives in the back than is usual in a place where power can be determined by how close you sit to the Oval Office. The Carter staff is more relaxed and more approachable than any other White...
...This law provided that no Indian land could change hands without congressional approval. In fact, the act mainly reserved to the Federal Government those further immense acquisitions of Indian territory that would be made in the 19th century. The leader who set the pace and policy for the relentless official land-grabbing that accompanied western expansion was Andrew Jackson. The Tennessean vaulted to the White House on the reputation he had won partly by clearing the Southern states of Indians as a major general of the militia. As President, he continued the work with a determination suggested by his celebrated...
...novel's relentless japery is almost sufficient to drown out some bleak thoughts on the state of the urban world. Seen through Wren's eyes, New York City is a ruin in which civility and beauty are relentlessly stamped out. "I suspected that the entire block," he notes, "chosen because it was handsome, had been condemned for demolition and cleared of tenants." Noting that automated garages are replacing the older type, thus putting "churlish" attendants out of work, Wren comments: "One more bit of the inhumane is replaced by the non-human." The author strikes this mordant note...
...hypnotist, a supersalesman and a ball pitcher," he said, "to prepare them to play the game and then to outguess them so most were not either wincing or shutting their eyes when the time came to shoot." The results rank among the greatest camera portraits ever taken, calmly relentless in their inspection of face and pose, profoundly sympathetic, and wholly unlike the genteel aestheticism of Alfred Stieglitz and the photosecessionists. They were, to use one of Hine's favorite adjectives, "straight...
...books, Poussaint fired off copies of her resume to television and radio stations around the country. CBS hired her for its Chicago outlet, and three years later made her a network correspondent there, at $28,000 a year. But Poussaint considers network reporting just another step in her relentless quest for learning and experience. She talks of going back to teaching, or helping an African nation set up its own television industry. Says Poussaint: "I don't intend to spend the next ten years of my life jumping on and off airplanes trying to explain the national debt...