Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Houphouet-Boigny, the most powerful man in the R.D.A. is a 36-year-old labor leader named Sékou Touré, now the vice premier of Guinea. A onetime Marxist and incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism...
...very democratic theory which first attached the words "public" and "universal" to education has proven to be education's most ruthless opponent at the other end of the scales of values: democracy in education has come to mean mediocrity...
Dictator-Coddling & Neglect. The charge that most impressed Nixon is that the U.S. has let itself seem more and more the friend of hated dictators. Thrown in his face again and again were such questions as, "Why did Eisenhower give Perez Jimenez the Legion of Merit? Why was that ruthless dictator admitted to the U.S. with such ease after he fell?" Nixon concluded that his unhappy reception in Caracas was a direct result of "ten years of dictatorship" associated in the public mind with...
Producer Eugene Burr directs the screening of the few actors who take principal roles; some have fled auditions in tears after a ruthless grilling by lawyers testing their ad-libbing ability. The jurors are picked from studio visitors, must come back three to seven days running until the trial is finished. As a concession to TV viewers' impatience, they reach their verdict by majority vote...
...Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. But Düurrenmatt's tale of the woman who corrupted Gullen is more eerily sinister. In Madame Zachanassian, with her entourage-pet panther, youthful eighth husband, blinded perjurers. American gangsters-are the all-too-obvious symbols of a ruthless, degenerate world. Moreover, it was Claire herself who carefully reduced Gullen to poverty as a prelude to tempting it; and her revenge seems directed almost as much on the town that witnessed her shame as on the man who caused it. "The world," she cries, "made me into a whore...