Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light...
...spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...there." Then Bobby is cued for the big sock finish. "Come on and hold me tight," he begins laconically, but from the control room a voice interrupts: "A little more Boston soul, Senator." Later, when he waxes too hot ("O come on, wild thing"), the producer cautions: "Not so ruthless, Senator...
...daily campaigning in the 1964 and 1966 elections, making ten to a dozen speeches a day in town after town. When Labor won in 1964, Brown was given the Department of Economic Affairs, quickly proved the most effective reorganizer the department had seen in years. He was brutal, ruthless and demanding-but he did what had to be done. He developed Labor's roundly applauded "National Plan" for growth, only to see it shelved by the sterling crisis. He nearly quit over Wilson's stiff price and income controls, yet his labor-management spadework was largely responsible...
...centered in the pelvic and genital regions, and Martha's bluntness in teaching them shocks the innocent." She teaches her "virile gestures" at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan, where housewives and movie stars glory in "the miracle of the foot." "One must be ruthless to teach," she says, and students have learned to endure her snits, her incomprehensible ways, and her lonely "voyages into herself," when she wraps herself in a shawl and sits in the rehearsal room in a yogalike trance...