Word: merciless
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...incorruptibility. Wherever Christopher shows up-in government offices, in country retreats, even in the mud of France-he finds Sylvia there, turning men's minds against him. As a woman, Sylvia is probably the worst bitch in 20th Century fiction, and scarcely credible. But as a symbol of merciless revolution against old, established order she is the core of Ford's social tragedy...
...before the liberation in 1945 . . . And let us be frank about it; all Orientals are alike in their contempt for human life and dignity. They are cruel where we have pity; they are brutal where we show compassion; they are ingratiating to those they fear or think superior, but merciless with the weak or inferior who fall into their hands...
...cabled: "Lieut. Jim Little, driving in the lead jeep, suddenly found himself staring down the barrel of a 50-caliber, machine gun only 45 feet away. His panic-stricken Korean interpreter jumped out and the G.I. driver threw up his hands to surrender. Both were cut down by a merciless blast from the machine gun. A Red soldier then jumped into the road and drew a bead on Little with his rifle. Luckily, the weapon jammed. Little had time to duck into the shelter of a house by the roadside. Said he, later, 'I could see every inch...
...idea man, however, he is probably unsurpassed in Hollywood. His mind is a storehouse of plots, story angles and gimmicks, and with an extraordinary, freewheeling inventiveness he reworks them endlessly into different patterns. He is also a merciless story critic. Respecting talent, he has a knack for channeling it and knows when to leave it alone. For all his autocratic belligerence, he can quickly drop an idea of his own when someone else comes up with a better...
...finally decides that there is only one clear way into "the company of men," i.e., by becoming as merciless, as cruel and as cowardly as men all seem to be. At the end of a long police chase, in which he has sought in vain for a single person capable of a disinterested act of charity, he shoots Vanderputte-the only human being who has done him a kindness since his father's death...