Word: remorselessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany boasts a Five-Year Plan, supposed like its Soviet prototype to bring heaven on earth. At the end of its first year, on Jan. 1, the Communists proclaimed an "unheard-of excelling of norms." But last week, in response to an invitation to subject the plan to "remorseless criticism," hundreds of German Communists wrote letters to their newspaper editors. Consensus: the Five-Year Plan-Pfui...
East German Communist leaders sensed that shrinking feeling. Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht hastily summoned party leaders of East Berlin. After 72 hours of "remorseless criticism," they issued a melancholy manifesto: "Fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan is handicapped by red tape, a reactionary attitude towards what is new, fear of responsibility, lack of discipline, laziness . . . There has developed a serious estrangement between party functionaries and the masses." Then Ulbricht announced ominously that new elections "on all levels of the party apparatus" will be held within a month...
...suffers most is Detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas), a stickler for justice untempered by mercy, who bears down on a confused first offender as sadistically as he hounds a criminal abortionist. His life is dedicated in about equal parts to the remorseless pursuit of wrongdoers and to the love of his young wife (Eleanor Parker). Then he learns that she was one of the abortionist's patients before he married...
...Their appeals are translated into English by the anti-vivisection societies, now embarked on a new crusade to keep pets from the torture chambers of Cruel Science. The text accompanying the melancholy faces tells you that the trusting friend of another child has fallen into the clutches of the "remorseless experimenters...