Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters, he is nonetheless in many ways just the kind of President that could have been expected. While he inspires neither love nor hate, he is open, unassuming and accessible. He is willing to talk to people, and he listens to what they have to say. He is not ruthless or vindictive. If he does not forgive his enemies all their transgressions, he does not try to punish them either-a forbearance very few Presidents have shown. While others may have lost confidence in him, he appears to remain serenely confident in himself. He betrays no signs of anxiety...
...Tonia Grdina, a 21-year-old undergraduate at Cleveland State University. The Kucinich appointees quickly became known as the City Hall Raiders. To their credit, the Raiders rooted out hundreds of unproductive bureaucrats, mostly middle managers. But many Clevelanders complain that some of the Raiders have proved to be ruthless and arrogant. Concedes Kucinich: "The criticism has some merit as it relates to the bureaucracy, but we treat the general public with respect...
...Palestinians perceive the situation, by charging into Lebanon the Israelis have lost whatever chance they had of gaining Arab recognition beyond what they have already received from Cairo. If Israeli retaliation against Palestinian terrorism grows more ruthless, the Palestinians argue, Jerusalem will gradually lose its remaining Western support...
...what he calls an "Orwellian passage of time." Mehta, who was born in India but has lived in the U.S. for many years, recognized from the beginning how dangerous a path Mrs. Gandhi had chosen. By her action, he wrote, "she risked making it possible for politicians, much more ruthless and power-hungry than she, one day to dislodge her and perpetrate abuses of power previously unimagined...
...relationship between David and Saul that mixes rivalry with reluctant affection is subtly written and strikingly portrayed by Baxstresser and McDonough. Baxstresser's gender does not impede her portrayal of David; her slim, boyish looks overcome her feminine voice. Deceptively earnest and naive at first, Baxstresser waxes tense and ruthless. McDonough as Saul conveys the innocence and incompetence which plauge Saul very well, although at times he hammers in Saul's stupidity with overplayed grimaces and heavy-handed humor. Nevertheless, the scene where David reveals his ambition ranks as one of the best in the play. Saul incredulously asks...