Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, Hughes' withdrawal stemmed from a deep fear that others would gain power over him. It was an ironic inversion of his own ruthless desire to impose his will on others. In an exchange of messages with a Merrill Lynch executive in 1960, Hughes boasted that for most of his life he had never done anything that he did not want to. Though he attracted many talented people into his service, he demanded a total obedience...
...returning to Spain to make Virdiana, the Fascist government claimed a major propaganda triumph and leftists every where deplored Bunuel's sell-out. But Bunuel had the last laugh: although the government censors didn't realize it when they saw the film, Viridiana is a sardonic and ruthless attack on the role of the church, sexual morality, property, and social class in Spanish society, as became apparent to the world when it was shown at the Cannes film festival. Beggars take over a rich man's house and stage a ghastly version of the Last Supper. The best tough...
Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...
...Make no mistake about it. Smith is a bloody ruthless man with opponents," warns a member of the white opposition. But Smith's most recent displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive tactics in dealing with the ANC have led directly to the increasingly violent challenge to continued minority rule in Rhodesia. Smith's attempts to withstand the economic, military and diplomatic pressure to capitulate have made "consequences too ghastly to contemplate" all the more probable. The sooner Smith capitulates the more...
...against the S.S. and the Police taking drastic steps and putting those known as slackers in concentration camps. Let it happen several times and the news will go around." For all his efforts to distinguish himself from the rest of Hitler's clique, Speer was no less brutal or ruthless than the rest...