Word: relentlessness
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...they are. At the end, promoted to a clerkship, he sits at his new desk and looks calmly into the camera. He has achieved his ambition, he has won un posto sicuro. The audience senses that he will never leave it. On the sound track gradually rises the mechanical relentless rumbling of a mimeograph machine...
This was no performer re-creating the Old West, but the boss of a huge and exciting corporation that is dedicated to a relentless pursuit of the future. He is Charles Bates Thornton, 50, the chairman of California-based Litton Industries-and he was busy on horseback at the most important facet of his job: thinking. When "Tex" (he came from a small Texas town) Thornton has a problem to mull over, he finds that he does his best thinking on a solitary 30-or 40-mile ride through the mountains, where he can "look at the world down there...
Yevtushenko will recover from his recent disgrace. He will remain loyal to the regime, but he will also criticize it, for he firmly believes self-examination is the only way to inner strength. He will probably never make a great literary contribution of his own; bit through his relentless campaign for increased intellectual freedom Yevtushenko has made, and will continue to make, an important contribution to he artistic achievements of others. He and his allies will suffer setbacks, as they did last spring, but each time they will widen the sphere of freedom little further...
...this Frost seems comic most of the time, the book offers one brief, chilling hint that Frost's relentless self-preoccupation lay at the heart of the tragedies that beset most of the people close to him. His sister and one of his children went insane; another daughter died from tuberculosis. After failing at farming and writing, Frost's only son Carol shot himself. Frost had spent the previous night assuring the boy that he was not a failure. Duly reported to Louis Untermeyer, Carol's last words to his father have a ring of true horror...
...beautiful young man of stupefying idiocy whom everyone calls "Sonny," is visited by the stigmata-the five wounds of Christ. He bleeds in reproach to the worldly and the clever, it is supposed. But any serious social or theological point is hopelessly compromised by Leary's relentless facetiousness, extracting what fun is available in copes, albs, chasubles, incense and the osseous relics of saints with humorous names. The pity is that Leary has evident talent and high spirits; if he could be persuaded to stay away from church for a while, he might write a good book...