Word: relentlessness
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...Federal Bureau of Investigation has become an important fixture in the American psyche. Young white boys dream of growing up to be one of the Bureau's strong-jawed, clean-shaven Special Agents; car thieves and kidnappers fear its relentless pursuit; leftists and antiwar organizers wonder if Agents are tapping their telephones, reading their mail, infiltrating their meetings. Business, labor, and political leaders all fear and depend on the Bureau's wide information-gathering and dissemination powers...
...marked contrast, Fischer is the relentless aggressor. Now 28 and near the peak of his considerable powers, he no longer favors the flashy, intricate but error-prone attacks of his younger days. He has become the classical tactician, launching his assaults from solid positional bases, overpowering rather than dazzling his opponents. Paradoxically, his celebrated killer instinct was the one trait that seemed to threaten his chances against Petrosian. Prematch speculation had it that Fischer, the only grand master who consistently prefers to risk defeat rather than settle for a tie game, might be a setup for the Petrosian ploy...
...telethon." Among the other indelible events for Adler and Margolies, they say, were the Pope's 1965 visit to Yankee Stadium and, in 1969, the funeral of President Eisenhower. A couple of years ago, they began photographing images from the screen and, because of TV's relentless reruns, were able to capture a relatively complete archive of the past. "We wanted to isolate events, record them and in so doing create a different reality," explains Adler...
...Tenant is not really a novel (or parable), but a bleak, relentless vision. It is full of that blend of realism and fantasy, comedy and pathos that distinguishes Malamud as one of America's best writers. That it does not end with a warm rush of saving compassion indicates that he is one of America's most honest writers as well. · R. Z. Sheppard
Joyful occasions have rarely been granted Russia's great writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. His life, like his work, is a chronicle of disaster: prison, concentration camps, exile, cancer and relentless persecution by the Soviet authorities. Still, one exhilarating moment came last year when news arrived from Stockholm that he had won the world's most prestigious literary award, the Nobel Prize. "I am thankful," he said with feeling to Per Egil Hegge, then correspondent for Oslo's Aftenposten, who phoned him the glad tidings in Moscow...