Word: relentlessness
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Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
SOMEWHERE IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER, Aug. 5--Undaunted by the fact that he has long been conceded to be out of the running, governor John A. Volpe today continued his relentless campaign for the vice-presidency...
With their vast and relentless power of amplification, the writers of commercials sprinkle more tag lines and catch phrases into the conversation than the poets, fettered to their paper and print, can ever hope to put into the American idiom. "A little dab'll do ya," "Fly the friendly skies" and "Leave the driving to us" are in fact a kind of pop poetry...
Overwhelming Irony. With the possible exception of John Kenneth Galbraith, most American critics embarked on a similar analysis of the U.S. would be likely to castigate their own culture in the stern and relentless manner of modern Cotton Mathers. But the French manage to be amusing, or at least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection...
...thinkers, to deal with them. The student catalogue of complaints is larger and more depressing than any list of grievances that U.S. students can compile. The Paris student seeking an advanced degree, such as the doctoral d'état (comparable to the American Ph.D.), faces six years of relentless scholastic competition as he fights his way, first to the diplome universitaire d'études littéraires (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), then through a second cycle leading to a teaching degree, and finally through a third phase involving research and the preparation of two theses. The doctorat...