Word: relentlessness
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...that bustle and activity arise not from a deep need to come to grips with the social forces that probably shaped the lives of its young creators, but from hype. It is not just a question of Davis' overextended performance but of scenes pushed out of shape by relentless, hard-driving direction, of a heavily romantic score intended to force responses out of the audience, of melodramatic cadenzas in the writing that are ill prepared for. The members of the Small Circle are not really involved in the larger events of the story; they are acted upon by them...
Victor Morrissey, 50, is in Britain to open a branch office. His wife is in a wheelchair in Scarsdale, N.Y. She lost both legs when, enraged and intoxicated after learning of her husband's philandering, she drove her car into a concrete abutment. The relentless tenet of The Bleeding Heart is that women always suffer and pay more than...
...ACSR meetings last semester, guarded requests for information on practices from intransigent firms, and hushed criticism of firms that refuse to provide information on their treatment of black workers. Sullivan stresses that the endorsement of his principles by an investor or corporation is a commitment to a conscientious, relentless, long-term effort to ensure that U.S. economic power is directed toward increased social justice in South Africa. Harvard's relation to the principles, and to a humanistic concern for black South Africans, is one of endorsement but not one of commitment. If a company or investor is unwilling to make...
...cupcakes at 50 paces. One duelist was Dewi Sukarno, 39, the sloe-eyed, Japanese-born widow of the Indonesian strongman and a relentless Paris partygoer for the past half a dozen years. Her antagonist: the legendary Regine, 50, who has parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public...
Nina Schneider has taken the title of her remarkable first novel from The Tempest: "What's past is prologue." The woman who lived in a prologue is a canny, cultivated Jewish matriarch who looks back upon her life story as a relentless series of false starts. As Ariadne Arkady tells it, hers was the archetypal "womanly" existence destined for the girl child born to immigrant parents around the turn of the 20th century. Denied a college education by her doting but traditional father, she is matched to an accountant with a Sephardic pedigree and a prim nature that denies...