Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Siberia was the university of the revolution. Here Koba followed the sharp controversies between the right (Menshevik) and left (Bolshevik) wings of the Social Democrats, without committing himself on either side. He also had time to observe his fellow exiles and to study their weaknesses. That maneuvering, waiting, ruthless mind of his was already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore...
...convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless competition for diplomas." But until school reform got under way L'Europeo had some advice for Italian school kids: "Away with guns and back to the slingshot...
Only a week had gone by since Congress formally began its long-threatened investigations of U.S. colleges and universities. But presidents and professors throughout the nation were already stewing and seething in anger. The men running the investigations were hardly the type that teachers could trust. They had been ruthless sluggers in the past, and they gave no indication that they had reformed. Last week, at the Atlantic City convention of the American Association of School Administrators, the investigators took some hard-fisted counter-punches-delivered in no uncertain terms by a woman. Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of Chairman Eugene...
...investigator is shameful . . . He has weakened the morale of our federal service and spread suspicion and fear throughout the nation. He has stirred up hatred and used every device to destroy the confidence of Americans in each other . . . [He is] our modern Grand Inquisitor . . . a dangerous, clever and ruthless demagogue . . . another Huey Long...
...Historian Prawdin describes him, Genghis Khan was a ruthless but not sadistic man-a tough old nomad who did not hesitate to destroy his enemies, yet who had no interest in pointless cruelties. Conquest was in his blood; he was never happy except on the march. "The greatest joy a man can know," he said, "is to conquer his enemies and drive them before...