Word: relentlessness
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Most of all, Carter's position has been improving because of his relentless attack on what his aides call the Tolstoy (i.e., war and peace) issue. When the President set out several weeks ago to slam home the fear that Reagan lacked the will and judgment to keep the U.S. out of war, the attack seemed a risky exercise that might backfire. But whatever may be thought of the fairness of the strategy, it has turned out that Carter's instincts, and the advice of Pollster Patrick Caddell, were politically sound: fear of nuclear war is indeed...
Were it not for the book's frequent powerful and moving passages, it would be difficult to finish A Man. The first 200 pages are a relentless description of gruesome torture--the Greek secret police had captured Alekos after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the dictator, and they shuttle him from torture center to torture center until they reach his place of captivity, a cell only large enough for two steps in one direction. When he is released, he meets the narrator, a character clearly based on Fallaci herself, an international political reporter who has covered revolutionaries from Bolivia...
...idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits, but he never refrains from slugging it out. He punishes his opponents, and occasionally his readers, with an aggressive and assertive style. The prose of these essays is a relentless onslaught...
...since 1976. Even if the Crimson doesn't come up with the title, the loss will not shake the coach's faith in his system. Joe Restic believes in the Multiflex with the intensity of a professor's committment to a pet theory. If others remain mystified by the relentless scamperings of 11 red jerseys on the turf of Harvard Stadium, Restic will try to explain once more--and maybe offer a little sympathy. After all, of Professor Brown's course, coach Restic said, "You won't begin to cover the Multiflex in one semester...
Nevertheless, the four-cornered attack far surpassed Bowdoin's output. The Polar Bears, who did not muster anything resembling an attack in the second half, were limited to six shots on goal on the day by the relentless Harvard pressure...