Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show the clear influence of The Band in their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down the Mission, for example, starts out like' a country stroll and ends like a hell-bent Georgia stagecoach...
...Harvard University, increasing costs are relentless. During the 1960's operating costs rose at the average of 12 million a year much due to inflation," the report found...
...play-its Nora Charles and its Ninotchka. And, in Hugo's great moments of choice, the two women become the primal forces between which Hugo must choose. Jessica is now Milton's Delilah, just as Olga is the hard-nosed Lady in Comus. Dirty Hands is a relentless moral treatise and a superficial "plot...
Princess from Poteet. Lady Bird describes her life and job in relentless and often random detail, but the mass of minutiae finally creates a greater impact than would a more structured and selective account: choreographing state visits and congressional receptions, greeting everyone from the strawberry princess from Poteet to the descendants and collaterals of the previous 34 presidential families, planning the clothes, planting the trees, patiently acquiring art and artifacts for the White House...
...relentless logic, the corporate state deprives people even of the search for their lost wholeness. Only the experiences of "dread, awe, wonder, mystery, accidents, failure, helplessness, magic" make the search possible, and these are denied. In the corporate state, says Reich, "the richness, the satisfactions, the joy of life are to be found in power, success, status, acceptance, popularity, achievements, rewards and the rational, competent mind...