Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shards of this experience, Appelfeld, now a renowned Israeli novelist, has composed a tale of appalling symmetry. Among Appelfeld's many novels and stories of the Holocaust (Badenheim 1939, The Age of Wonders), Tzili best exemplifies Kafka's bitter aphorism, "The arrows fit exactly in the wounds they have made...
...assailed Washington's conviction in 1972 for income tax evasion and added: "If it were my minority group, I'd be ashamed of this candidate." Said Washington: "If they [blacks] get the feeling that this is going to turn into a race war, then it might turn bitter, evil and angry...
...Mitterranomics fails, the French swallow bitter medicine...
Mitterrand's decision to reappoint Mauroy involved a careful political calculation. Whatever his disadvantages, Mauroy is perhaps the one leader who can cajole the Socialist electorate into swallowing the bitter pill of belt tightening. He pushed through the unpopular wage and price freeze last year. For Mitterrand, there is also an advantage in having Mauroy absorb the unpopularity that the stringent new economic measures will generate. If Mauroy becomes too much of a drag on the party, the President can replace him before the next legislative elections, which are scheduled for 1986. Mitterrand thus has given Mauroy two years...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...