Word: ruthlessness
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...news from South Africa is more discouraging than it has ever been. The government--by cracking down on moderates and using ruthless violence itself--is giving Blacks fewer and fewer reasons to hope that peaceful tactics will ever lead to real change. In the 60's in the United States violent clashes erupted on campuses when officials and police cracked down on protesters. Here at Harvard a 200-person occupation of University Hall in April 1969 mushroomed into a 5,000-person rally after police forcibly and violently removed the original handful of non-violent, student protesters. The same arithmetic...
...movie not meant to be. For the first ten minutes, the movie accurately portrays the strange environs of scientific research, and Peter O'Toole is marvelous as a mildly comic, Einstein-like scientist. David Ogden Stiers of MASH fame sounds good without his aristocratic air as O'Toole's ruthless rival. But then the Jeremy Leven screenplay begins its long plummet in quality of dialogue, and the less dazzling supporting cast intrudes...
...political Shaw bombinates in the wings: "Socialism without compulsory labor and ruthless penalization of idleness and exploitation is nothing but a hopeless confusion of Socialism with Liberalism." And the vegetarian is never far away: "I do not eat flesh, fish or fowl . . . You can be Sancho Panza on any food provided there is enough of it. If you want to be Pythagoras, you have to be more careful...
...want, perhaps even need real men (women need not apply) who can stand up to the ruthless terror tactics of Islamic fanatics, outwit and ultimately outgun the miscreants who choose to try to besmirch this nation's honor...
...program cannot be completely dismissed. It has marshaled its own cadre of authorities to help make a case that the Viet Nam series, among other things, inaccurately portrayed North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points out several...