Word: relentlessness
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...stolidly relentless vehicle of Marxism lumbers through history toward the light, its honored cargo has always been a rather dense abstraction called "the proletariat." But Karl Marx never lavished much bourgeois sentimentality on the proletariat in person, on real workers as individuals. In their private correspondence, Marx and Engels even referred to them as "stupid asses...
Kennedy was wedded to the old-style liberalism before he wandered into the presidential buzz saw. He knew nothing else. The politics that he learned he got from his brothers and their counselors, like Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, relentless disciples of the New Deal. Kennedy's convention speech may have been a declaration of new understanding acquired in today's world. Its specifics are almost less important than the sense of the moment that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit...
...trouble with this policy, which was adopted during the Eisenhower years, is that the conditions upon which it rests have changed, primarily because of the relentless buildup of Soviet strategic forces and the vast improvement in the accuracy of the Kremlin's nuclear warheads. The Soviets have achieved at least strategic parity with the U.S.; at the current rate of increase, the Kremlin is certain to attain clear-cut superiority in just a few more years. And despite its outcry against the Presidential Directive, Moscow has already deployed a very sizable counterforce arsenal of its own against U.S. Minuteman...
...doorways where teen-agers and their elders mill, hang out and wait. They have not the Jordache look. A good pickup game is as exciting as an N.B.A. playoff in these places. Otherwise there are few signs of vitality. Street lamps arch like deacons over the relentless streets. Open hydrants shoot water at passing cars the way fire boats sprayed the tall ships in the Bicentennial festival...
Silvio Narizzano's portrait of Max's attempts to learn them scruffy varmints their educational rudiments is adequate. He might have used color to better effect in portraying the relentless winter nights that settle over the grain fields; or further developed his political commentary, which stops at simplistic socialism...