Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely written a play all by himself, he has brightened many a theatrical season with shows in whose making he collaborated (June Moon, Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton Of The Movies). With Moss Hart the whimsically insane Kaufman touch has surpassed itself in producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with his relentless jester's bladder...
...separation of Church and State is being enforced radically and to the limit. I might say we are merely carrying out with merciless thoroughness a program similar to that of radical parties in bourgeois countries...
...carrying out of the plan involves merciless suppression of all and every opposition, no matter how mild or peaceful it may be, as well as the establishment of a thorough governmental control over not only the economic, but also the spiritual life of the nation. The individual is completely subjected to a communistic state of mind--either 100 percent communist or not at all, is the criterion...