Word: ruthlessness
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...KENNEDY CLAN is as handsome and spirited as a meadow full of Irish thoroughbreds, as tough as a blackthorn shillelagh, as ruthless as Cuchulain, the mythical hero who cast up the hills of Ireland with his sword. The tribal laws permit extremes of individualism, though most Kennedys look alike when they smile. When they are together, the family foofaraws are noisy and the discussions continuous, but when they are apart, their need for constant communication strains the facilities of the telephone company and the U.S. postal service. No matter where they happen to be, the Kennedys are a cable-stitched...
...autobiography occurs in a different dimension, a different part of the mind, and, quite literally, in a different region of time. While autobiography demands artifice, it also requires introspection and an order of a ruthless candor. What would Franklin Roosevelt's autobiography have been like? Dodgey piffle, perhaps. King and poet have different roles to play...
...appetite for the ragged edge of life and ability to write abut it with restrained power. The ten pieces in this collection of magazine articles, one of which won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, have the authentic tang of dispatches from the front...Deeply affecting stories of a ruthless world, natural and man-made, that will leave you stunned and distraught." Only the lengthy lead article, "Fire," has never been published before...
...pony up that kind of cash, the book would need to present Bill Clinton in an entirely new dimension - something like complete honesty. If I am a judge of your character, that is not going to happen. An honest autobiography requires a certain ruthless introspection of which, in my view, you are not capable. We'll offer you a $300,000 advance, half now, half on delivery...
...washrooms. An army of 20,000 men took 22 years to build the Taj Mahal, eventually finishing in 1653. The hands of many of the workers were later mutilated to prevent them from duplicating their work elsewhere. Saving India's great jewel may take a similarly monumental and ruthless effort...