Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Ronald Reagan likes to point out that he was once a union president as head of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952, his relations with organized labor have been poor since the beginning of his Administration. Said the council in a particularly bitter policy statement: "The catastrophic economic problems the Administration has created are made even worse by a cruel and regressive ideology that rewards the rich, forgets the jobless, punishes the minorities, ignores the poor and destroys protections for working people." When Reagan insisted last week that some Government indicators hinted that economic recovery...
...Secretary of State. In the course of the next year, amid what Kissinger describes as "the disintegration of the Nixon presidency," he found himself dealing with "an explosion in the Middle East, disputes with our allies, an energy crisis, the unraveling of the Viet Nam settlement and a bitter domestic controversy over U.S.-Soviet relations...
...that 60s activists shared some belief in those goals is correct, but to link them too closely to the campaigners of the Progressive era of the Jacksonian period may be an exaggeration. By the end of the period, the leader, and many of the followers, were angry and bitter, they wanted liberty, freedom, and equality, and they mistrusted power, but--in their intense frustration--they were willing, at least rhetorically, to tear the whole American construct down. Some of them built bombs...
...even gossip can be interesting if presented in a lively and humorous style. Ehrlichman, however, writes as if his imagination were chained to a post. His plodding exposition is replace with mixed metaphors, clichers, and spelling errors--its only humor is bitter and sarcastic. A sample of the Ehrlichman...
...still achieve his second purpose: self exoneration for his role in the Watergate crisis. But Ehrlichman's efforts here are as tiresome as they are tireless. His version of the Watergate scandal contains not a single previously unknown fact or innovative argument. Instead, it is a string of extraordinarily bitter and venomous recriminations and accusations. His main targets are John Dean, portrayed as a pathological liar, and his two trial judges--Gerhard Gesell and John J. Sirica--both the whom he sees as incompetent grandstanders...