Word: relentlessness
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...care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover, but for both of them the fun of the game lies in deceiving their families. When the mother dies in an accident. her husband...
...election of 1960 is without doubt the political cliffhanger of the century. The story begins in the fall of 1959, with the secret strategy meetings of all the aspirants and their campaign cadres (Adlai Stevenson, an exception, brooded alone in his Libertyville library), and it continues to the relentless long count of election night, when half the nation stayed mesmerized by television until dawn...
...lifetime, Honore Victorin Daumier was known chiefly as a relentless political cartoonist, but a few contemporaries appreciated him for the gifted painter that he was. "Daumier," wrote the poet Baudelaire, "knows all the absurd misery, all the folly, all the pride of the small bourgeois-this type that is at once commonplace and eccentric-for he has lived intimately with them and loves them." Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don's Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier's reputation...
...Relentless Rights. But the South's impatient young Negroes disagreed. And in Atlanta last year, when J. Lowell Ware, a Negro proprietor of a printing plant, proposed to Negro college students in Atlanta that they start a paper with his facilities, the Inquirer was born. In as editor, after two trial issues, went Carl Holman, 42, professor of English at Atlanta's Negro Clark College...
...commercial success eludes the Inquirer, it is mainly because Editor Holman and Publisher Ware do not care. The paper accepts ads, but none from downtown Atlanta merchants who have not integrated their stores. The Inquirer is unalterably geared to the relentless campaign of the Southern Negro for equal rights on every score. "When people say a story should be suppressed 'for the good of the community,' " says Carl Holman, "what they usually mean is peace at any price. We just don't believe in that...