Word: relentlessness
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...Relentless in war, forgiving in peace, he will tower in the annals of our history. One of the truly great Americans has gone to his reward...
...less a novel than a kind of fable in which a thin skin of realism is stretched to meet a rigid allegorical frame. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious, it does not fully confirm the remarkably high reputation Golding now enjoys. But it proves that he has made himself the relentless modern master of two ancient and provocative themes-the loss of paradise and the sinfulness of man. At a time when fictional pessimism often drifts off into murky private maunderings about the alienation of isolated individuals, Golding's resounding and rigorous fable is bound to provoke admiration and outcry...
...entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...lack of inspiring visions in America America is due to a relentless realism--and certainly many immigrants did emphasize the cash value of the golden door-- then Kazan is guilty of inconsistency. Although setting and dialogue are entirely unaffected, the events of Stavros' journey are hardly typical. In the end, he owes his equivocal success to his good looks, even though there are less contingent and less glamorous means of escaping Turkey. And occasionally a trite episode mars the credibility of the story. A fellow immigrant whom Stavros aids early in the picture, for instance, inevitably pops up to repay...
...small destroyer and more than enough to sink Cassius Clay. For one thing, Liston is not going to stand in the center of the ring for seven rounds and watch Cassius dance around him, nor will he madly chase a fleeting shadow. Sonny stalks his prey with the relentless drive of a Sherman tank. Anyone who saw the second Liston-Patterson travesty noticed that Sonny is not slow; slower than Clay, yes, but certainly agile and savvy enough to catch Cassius in a corner...