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...first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary tryout audience. But in experienced, honest hands, the road ordeal can also lead to the kind of relentless self-criticism in which Lerner, Loewe & Co. were caught up last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE ROAD | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

After battling the Cadets to a 6-6 deadlock for three periods, the JV line folded before a relentless ground attack that tallied three times in a little more than half the quarter to insure victory for the home team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Junior Varsity Falls to Army's Rushing Offensive; 26-12 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...written one of the year's most important novels. Like last year's Poorhouse Fair, his new book is bitterly anchored in Thoreau's belief that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but in this story, the restraining dam breaks to let loose such relentless despair as is seldom found in U.S. writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desperate Weakling | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Around this basic maneuver Schwartzwalder has built a system of plays that unfold with the relentless logic of a theorem in geometry. "We keep slamming that fullback off-tackle, and the defense has to bunch up to stop us. So the quarterback will fake the ball to the fullback and run outside himself, or pitch out to the tailback who's trailing him. Now they've got to bring up their secondary. That leaves them weak for option passes thrown by the tailback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coach Ben | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...principal offense of the English newspapers in the eyes of the Nationalists is their relentless exposure of the unsavory facts of apartheid rule. They are conservative when compared with newspapers here and in England; their policies are directed toward achieving reforms within constitutional framework; they criticize all forms of violence, whether it is perpetrated by the White authorities or by the African demonstrators...

Author: By Raymond Heard, | Title: South African Describes Verwoerd's Republic | 10/28/1960 | See Source »

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