Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians. When the Reds set up their puppet regime in Germany, they made Grotewohl chancellor. In his fine, freshly painted office, the chancellor found little work to do; the Russians ran the show and made the decisions. The real boss of the puppet government was Grotewohl's "deputy," ruthless veteran Communist Walter Ulbricht...
...surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering of witnesses in the days when he presided over the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...play tells of a Swedish cavalry captain whose ruthless wife-in a deep sexual struggle for domination-malignly and methodically drives him insane. Her final ruse is to obsess him with the idea that he is not the father of their child. Strindberg is himself obsessed here, seeing all villainy in the world's wives, as the mad Lear saw it in the world's daughters. But if an unbalanced man, Strindberg was a far from impotent artist: he punctuated the play with flashes of insight and jabs of feeling...
...text of The Little Foxes that Regina has altered: the storyline scarcely varies an inch. It is the tone. With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect...
...French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...