Word: relentlessness
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...himself gazing on a corpse, two people desperate from unhappiness, another a trifle crazy, a fifth? very old. The theatregoer is inclined to wonder if life is like that and whether a nifty here and there would not have helped. As a matter of fact the author, with a relentless logic, has shown that life under the circumstances could not possibly have been otherwise. Though he has created an artistic cross-section of stark bitterness, he is too pessimistic, too penetrating, to be widely popular. Possibly thereby he proves his tragedy is true...
Secretary Hughes first spoke of the waste of time in official circles through unnecessary contrasts and went on to mention the thrist for sensation and relentless need of motion that has permeated the whole country...
...return of business prosperity which vitiated their " industrial misery and slavery " pleas, and split wide open by internal strife, the I. W. W. has suffered a relapse that most experts on labor problems thought to be fatal. The Marine Workers' strike proves that the I. W. W. have relentless vitality of a kind. Like the serpents of mythology you can cut them into little pieces, but all the pieces live...
PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...
EBONY AND IVORY ? Llewellyn Powys ? American Library Service ($2.00). The dark continent is swept with a revealing glare of realism. The intensity of the picture is almost unbearable. Mr. Powys sees Africa as a place of creeping death, of relentless cruelty...