Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raven comes to the U.S. under a cloud that is mostly hot air. The picture was made with German financing during the occupation. Rumor said that it was so ruthless an exposure of French decadence that it was shown in Germany, as anti-French propaganda, under the title A Small French City. Actually, the film is neither more nor less anti-nationalist than the work of any intelligent, morally responsible artist, in time of peace or war. Propaganda or not, the picture was not shown in wartime Germany; indeed it was banned there (Germans, after all, might observe that...
...spots in "That Winter" come each time the author draws from his exclusive personal experience. Both The Managing Editor of The Newsmagazine, for whom Miller once ground out crisp copy, and one Jonathan Lee, wealthy sponsor of a "think" journal called Thought, spring from actual life parallels in pretty ruthless prose. On his trip to the hometown of Hadley, Iowa (Miller grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude...
Boss Frank Gannett fumed that the state needed a law "putting newspapermen on a legal par with the clergy in protecting those who confide." In going after Clarke and Leonard, said Gannett, District Attorney Stanley B. Johnson "has established a reputation for swift and ruthless action. It is to be hoped he shows a like alacrity in disposing of gamblers and gambling institutions." At week's end, Johnson showed no such alacrity. The only other arrests were two gamblers, their pockets stuffed with policy tickets. They were fined and turned loose...
Widow's Mite. As the dowager empress of tin, Albina will not have as easy a time as her ruthless husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930), he could squeeze the Unless, smelterless U.S. (which normally consumes more than half of world tin production). But in World War II, when Simon was too friendly with the Nazis for British comfort, the cartel came apart. Alarmed, Patino tried to get back into U.S. good graces. Later, Chase National Bank's Vice President Joseph C. Rovensky became chairman...
...Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously with the Battle of Gettysburg; and so on. His boyhood friends become symbols of American types--the ruthless financier, the self-improving politician, the cynical intellectual. And more subtle symbolism continues, page after page. More and more we see Shawnessy's self-identification with the County, with the river (which flows in the form of the initials of two major characters), with the earth itself...