Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy was wedded to the old-style liberalism before he wandered into the presidential buzz saw. He knew nothing else. The politics that he learned he got from his brothers and their counselors, like Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, relentless disciples of the New Deal. Kennedy's convention speech may have been a declaration of new understanding acquired in today's world. Its specifics are almost less important than the sense of the moment that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit...
...doorways where teen-agers and their elders mill, hang out and wait. They have not the Jordache look. A good pickup game is as exciting as an N.B.A. playoff in these places. Otherwise there are few signs of vitality. Street lamps arch like deacons over the relentless streets. Open hydrants shoot water at passing cars the way fire boats sprayed the tall ships in the Bicentennial festival...
Silvio Narizzano's portrait of Max's attempts to learn them scruffy varmints their educational rudiments is adequate. He might have used color to better effect in portraying the relentless winter nights that settle over the grain fields; or further developed his political commentary, which stops at simplistic socialism...
While inflation made consumers see red, the skies remained a relentless blue. The heat wave again proved that despite the best air conditioning and modern technology, people can still fall prey to nature's whims. The victims as usual were the poor, the old and the helpless. In Fort Worth, Patricia Harris, 17, left her son LaMont, 2, in her car while she went to work as a $3.50-an-hour hospital orderly. Within three hours, the temperature in the auto had reached 130° and the boy had died. In Fulton County, Ga., police found...
...wealthy industrialized nations, the study predicts adequate supplies of oil and other energy sources through 1990, but even before then the poor nations will experience serious shortages, with the outlook particularly bleak for the one-quarter of humanity dependent primarily on wood for fuel. Already the relentless quest for firewood in places like Africa's Sahel and the foothills of the Himalaya-to say nothing of such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees...