Word: ruthlessness
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...write of age-old plots being played out in the 20th century but "Somewhere between Mamme and Tatte's world on earth and God in Heaven there was an island of demigods not ruled by human laws. Here the range of imagination was wider, feelings more passionate and ruthless....Every myth I came to know, I believed in, and lived through, giving it new twists...
...great writer's boldest act of defiance thus far; his letter struck at the heart of the Kremlin's most ruthless and most secret instrument of terror. Specialists in the West speculated that the KGB, unused to such challenges, might well be tempted to retaliate by permanently ensuring Solzhenitsyn's silence. As a KGB officer told Gorlov: "We are on an operation, and on an operation we can do anything...
Thus ever after. The Catholic Church more or less came to accept the idea of sin as inevitable until the Protestant Reformation once again demanded ruthless punishments. Another crusade, this one in the American West and aimed at the new Holy Land of the frontier, drew its camp followers just as surely. The sporting house and the saloon became the social centers of many an outpost and booming new metropolis from the Alleghenies to the Yukon; most splendid of them all was the famous Everleigh Club, a 50-room mansion in Chicago, where for $50 a night minimum, guests were...
...bureaucrats. We have to fight them off." White House Staffers Robert Finch, Herbert Klein and William Safire have practiced what some readers regard as blatant pro-Nixon puffery in their Op-Ed contributions, but Salisbury insists that he has returned the worst such examples for rewrites and made "ruthless revisions" in others to purge them of their most obvious public relations touches. Contributions from both extremes of the political spectrum remain the most turgid in style, but overall, says Salisbury, "the quality of the writing has improved. We're much more severe now in what we accept. Interest...
...Ruthless and pointless as this may seem, Judd's work is a consistent answer to a difficult question: What kind of order belongs to sculpture and to nothing else? More organic sculpture alludes to orders that are not its own, thus the bumps and hollows and textures of a Henry Moore suggest the processes by which wood grows or rocks are formed. Judd's work treads the thin, difficult edge of embodying and demonstrating an order without alluding to it. Hence its abstractness, its relative unpopularity and the challenging effect it has had on younger artists...