Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quite an Achievement." The most dispiriting thing about U.N. debates is not their occasional descent into abuse, or their relentless prolixity. It is the fact that, with rare exceptions. U.N. debates are conducted in a vacuum-and when they result in "decisions." no one who finds those decisions unpleasant feels obliged to listen. Three weeks ago. attempting to justify to the House of Commons Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion...
Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill's unsparing levy on his own darkened past, may constitute his most substantial legacy to the American stage. Reaching Broadway 16 years after it was finished and three years after his death, this relentless chronicle of O'Neill's riven and tormented family has the imperious thrust of unblushing theater mated to unsoftened truth. It also achieves the illumination born of compulsive groping, prodding and clawing in dark places. In it O'Neill has managed to apply a famous phrase of Addison...
...Eleven years of relentless Communist-indoctrination of the satellites' youth, in schools, workshops, clubrooms, gymnasiums, in cafes and across kitchen tables, has failed to capture their imagination or loyalty. The demonstrators in Poland, the fighters in Hungary were largely people who have come of age under Communism...
Another factor in making music come to life is the use of the proper sized auditorium. In Paine Hall, Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 4 was not dwarfed accoustically as it might have been in Sanders Theater. Senturia drove his strings to the kind of relentless rhythm that can make Baroque music so exciting. While the accuracy of the violins was not quite 100 percent, the counterpoint was clear and the pacing excellent...
Quite apart from the quality of her voice, her technique is phenomenal. The product of the relentless discipline that characterizes everything she does, it enables her to ignore the conventional boundaries of soprano, mezzo-soprano and contralto as if they had never been created. She can negotiate the trills and arabesques of coloraturas as easily as she trumpets out a stinging dramatic climax. Like her operatic sisters of a century ago, La Callas can sing anything written for the female voice. Because of her, La Scala has revived some operas (Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Verdi...