Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth, for Brecht, would ultimately be nurtured and fueled by the proletariat, the working man being the true repository of hope. This seems a pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting of the price of compromise and even of freedom...
...little patience with ideological or issue-oriented "purists" who refuse to see that "no final victories occur," that compromise is necessary. He spent seven months as an unhappy president of a Manhattan brokerage firm in 1969 and insists that except for Nixon, Wall Street was "a far more ruthless world than anything I have known in politics. I saw men who had been with a company for decades fired by telegram, just like that, without warning or sympathy. You don't often see people treated that way in politics...
...portrait of New York's master planner Robert Moses, a ruthless visionary who built toward a city of the future and found that power corrupts and so does the internal-combustion engine...
...certainly worthwhile for journalists to think about the news, and there's nothing wrong with trying to relate daily events to more long-range, underlying trends, using philosophy to illustrate the news of the day, or even--as another aspiring journalist, Karl Marx, once suggested--undertaking a ruthless criticism of everything existing. But all these things involve an attempt to learn from and about the news of the day and to report on it--not an imparting of wisdom from Olympian heights to those mired in the news's reality. The inadequacy of Lippmann's call for making journalism...
Whatever its outcome, the Bell suit will surely set the stage for a renewed debate about the proper aims of modern antitrust policy. Not even the Justice Department accuses A T & T of behaving in the ruthless style of the freewheeling monopolies that were broken up under the Sherman Act 60 years ago. As the lingering notion that "bigness is badness" has faded, the nation has tolerated increasing concentration in many industries. The question that overlies virtually every antitrust effort today is how to weigh the admitted advantages of competition against the economics of scale in any given field. Businessmen...