Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Curiously, this high point is precisely where the question of the teacher's usefulness sometimes turns bitter. A book says something ennobling; a teacher makes that clear. It ought to follow that students are ennobled, but the opposite often occurs. In his essay "Humane Literacy," George Steiner brooded, "We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been taught to read Shakespeare or Goethe, and continued to do so. This compels us to ask whether knowledge of the best that had been thought and said does, as Matthew Arnold asserted, broaden and refine the resources...
...does 83% of its business nationally marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced,a bitter battle with dissident stockholders to retain control of his company. Speculation is that a new fight will soon begin...
...George and Martha we can believe have been tormenting each other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place a large liquor cabinet overpoweringly in the middle...
...Koestler was never able to derive much joy from the past tense. He had seen his books vilified by Hitler's and Stalin's minions. Now he wished to hear no more about them. "The bitter passion has burned itself out," he decided. "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change...
Indeed it was. The Labor Party remains locked in a bitter internecine struggle between its militant left wing and moderate centrists. In the wake of the Bermondsey result, there was rampant speculation that Michael Foot, 69, Labor's rumpled and largely ineffectual leader, would have to step down before the next general election, which Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could call as early as June...