Word: bitter
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...news brought few tears. Schmidt's brief reign as steward of Yale's fortunes was rocky from the start. When the former dean of Columbia University Law School commuted between New Haven, Conn., and home with his filmmaker wife in New York City, Yalies jeered, "Where's Benno?" A bitter strike by graduate-student teaching assistants and recent recommendations for sharp cutbacks in faculty and the elimination of several academic departments damaged campus morale. But Schmidt, 50, managed to assuage some students by serenading them with country-and-western tunes on his guitar and to woo some alums with...
...Bungle in the Jungle: An infamous Thomas-hosted blowout which culminated with a festival of naked drunkenness in the Adams House pool, and which in turn resulted in the closing of said pool. ("Ooh, I was so bitter...
Aronberg defended Beys and the council for trying to organize a concert--an endeavor which has repeatedly ended in bitter failure for the body which lost $35,000 on a 1989 Suzanne Vega concert and $25,000 on a 1990 Ziggy Marley concert...
...ORDERED CHOICE first infected the houses in the spring of 1990, after two years of bitter struggle over the apparatus by which first-year students would choose their houses. It is a halfbaked compromise between complete randomization and the old ordered-choice lottery instituted in the 1970s...
...balance of plaintive charm and rhythmic sophistication in a 1930 recording of You Do Something to Me. For Miss Otis Regrets, Ethel Waters' well-known version is bypassed in favor of one by blues singer Alberta Hunter because, as album editor Dwight Blocker Bowers notes, she gives this uniquely bitter nonsense song "Porter's sassy spirit." So does this whole definitive...