Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the meeting the General sets out in his jeep to visit his corps commanders, to detail plans, to check on battle performance. The commanders know that the General is no martinet, but they also know that he can be ruthless in putting the ax to any command if it fails to meet his combat standards (Hodges has sacked several generals and colonels, some of them his close friends...
...Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest plums in Araby...
...large the Junker were perhaps the most able, intelligent and disciplined single group of men on the continent of Europe. Certainly they were the most ruthless, tough-minded, coldblooded. They needed to be. For never before had their caste so squarely faced the prospect of extermination...
...follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book's examples...
...tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...