Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commerce head in 1945 to make way for Henry Wallace. (He later called Wallace "an incompetent meddler with screwball ideas," denounced F.D.R. as a ruthless "total politician.") His lifelong passion was power ("I am a trustee for all of the people"), and in wielding it he made many enemies, who called him "Jesse James" and "Ten-Percent Jones." To his admirers he made democracy a safe risk...
...scenes. Along the way, he exploits and blows cigar smoke into the faces of a whole range of characters, from his liberal-minded wife (whom he marries for her vineyards), and a blackmail-prone professor, up to the top brass of the California Democratic Party. He is cool, ruthless, sadistic; even his one friend, Hank Moore, sees him as a lost, fragmented being-an "upward mobile...
...responsibility: "The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is good. Everything goes . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies...
...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...
...women were back in ruthless force in the Studio One offering. The Drop of a Hat, a study of venomous infighting among the career girls on a Manhattan fashion magazine. Jayne Meadows and Elizabeth Montgomery had no difficulty proving the deadliness of the determined female, and Nina Foch worked herself into a convincing neurosis as their outmaneuvered victim. Few males could watch this show without a premonitory shudder. In fact, it was a bad wreek all around for the male...