Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder at the harm that might be done once such a deft and ruthless professional as Red China's Chou En-lai gets to maneuvering the inexperienced, the emotional and the naive among the men who represent more than half of humanity...
...lofty character and guileless manner seemed no denial of the deepest insight into human as well as cosmic affairs. Then ... I realized he was not just greatly simple, but naive and biased . . . I have also met mathematical physicists without Einstein's outward simplicityamp;151;men of ruthless objectivity in their field-who somehow lacked the experience or will to make even a less than profound analysis of world events. Thus, I reluctantly admit there are scientists whose great accomplishments have given some of their views an undeserved weight in public matters . . . What kind of "rugged Americanism...
...that though they want independence they do not approve violence. It still remains to be seen whether the Neo-Destourists can influence more than their own supporters in the hills. Perhaps another 1,500 fellaghas continue to hide out; some are fanatic patriots, others are, and always have been, ruthless brigands...
...Dirt-poor as all his neighbors, Gaston lived like them close to the soil and the wind and the rain, a hard, dour patriarch who ruled his little family with an iron hand and neither asked nor granted favors. His justice, like his life, was simple, ruthless, but at least straightforward...
Also detracting from what seems the main theme of the film--the growth and disintegration of a beautiful young girl--is the obsession the motion picture industry has for itself. The Bad and the Beautiful said quite a bit about professional back-stabbing and the ruthless, compulsive people who produce films. Well, The Barefoot Contessa revisits the same territory, using the same map and plots no new landmarks of villainy. Along with the favorite theory of many top movie writers that nothing is quite so worth studying as the workings of their own industry are the corollaries that all these...