Word: relentlessly
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...might be the prospect of political change in the wind that helps make this new folk sound so bracing. "It's the perfect music for these times," as Neil Young says. Or maybe it's the prevailing staleness of pop and the relentless assaults of rap. In any case, there is as much to celebrate in the sudden multiplicity of folk talent as there was at the Garden. Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk...
Last weekend, the Leverett House Arts Society presented a very sane, sophisticated interpretation of The Importance of Being Earnest, which managed to capture much of the relentless charm and wit of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece...
...visions? Has any fact better defined the modern world than the shift from seeing the future as an endless cycle of repetition of the past to seeing it as a straight line of progress into the unknown? Has anything contributed more to the wellspring of all progress -- the relentless variety of human curiosity and invention -- than the belief that the future can and must be different, bigger, better...
Economies now depend on the relentless search for new needs, new markets. Democracy by its nature spurs change: no other system replaces leaders and rewrites the social contract with such speed because none other presupposes that government renew its right to govern virtually every day. The rise of individualism across the world speeds change because ideas about how to live now emanate from millions of minds rather than a handful of institutional authorities. Communications technology is eroding the meaning of nationality, ethnicity and borders...
...this game was different. The Crimson applied relentless pressure and finally scored with 32:36 gone in the first half when the fleet-footed Downing tallied unassisted. Then, with seven seconds left in the half, Belisle converted a penalty shot for a strong 2-0 lead...