Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side stood President Ahmed ben Bella, whose Socialist dictatorship has so far brought his country little beyond unemployment and hunger. On the other side were 1,000,000 dissident Berbers, led by two of Ben Bella's wartime comrades whose ide ology is vague, but who oppose his ruthless power drive and his economically disastrous rule...
...Lewis Taylor's novel about a boy's life in a wagon train on the California trail. It is directed with a spare honesty and superbly acted by Dan O'Herlihy as Jaimie's father. The trail story has its light side, but a necessary, ruthless brutality is always present: women are attacked, children die, a man is knocked cold, then strapped to a horse and sent to a party of hostile Indians. It's his life or everyone's. Temple Houston (NBC), whose hero is an 1880 lawyer who rides the circuit looking...
...commented that it was probably the last mass protest the government would permit. It wrote: "The days when students could protest, secure in the faceless anonymity of a crowd are gone; he who protests now must stand single and alone, fanned by a cold wind of censure from a ruthless and intolerant government." The editorial concluded that "the choice between silence and protest has been made infinitely more difficult...
Since most of the pictures have never been seen before, the joint exhibition has an automatic excitement. But more significantly, it helps correct the threadbare notion that Grosz stopped being an important artist when he moved to the U.S. His ruthless portrayals of Germans made him the greatest satirist of his time; he drew and painted America with sympathy and even love. When the critics saw the change, they handed down the verdict that Grosz without satire was Grosz without stature. What the critics failed to see-and often still do-is that Grosz was much more than a satirist...
...leadership isn't enough. The Republican Party is a party of principle, not the captive of a clan or cult of personality. This is not a party controlled by any one man's money. It believes in an executive branch that is an equal partner, not a ruthless boss; in a judicial branch that is equal and independent, that interprets laws but does not make them...