Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pace and processes of change, I suppose that a great danger in virtually all the East European countries is the trauma of the transition to a market economy. How can it be done in a way that does not leave a large percentage of the population so frustrated and bitter about the slow pace that they turn to more undemocratic leaders at the extremes? Think about the general situation. How often, in the history of the world, do you have so many simultaneous revolutions occurring, with people who are trying to change their political and economic structures and cultural norms...
Many writers have said that one of evil's higher accomplishments has been to convince people that it does not exist. Ivan Karamazov's bitter diabology was a bit different: "If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." In a nightmare, Ivan meets the devil, a character of oddly shabby gentility, who mentions how cold it was in space, from which he lately came, traveling in only an evening suit and open waistcoat. The devil speaks of the game of village girls who persuade someone to lick...
...year-old foster daughter Lisa to death, is an example. Ivan Karamazov speaks of a Russian nobleman who had his hounds tear an eight-year-old boy to pieces in front of the boy's mother because he threw a stone at one of the dogs. Karamazov asks the bitter question that is at the heart of the mystery of evil, "What have children to do with it, tell me, please...
...doesn't know which part of the country he prefers, despite the bitter New England winters. And while he's found Harvard to be a place where political debate thrives, "on any issue, it seems to be between diametrically opposed sides not interested in seeking any common ground...
...have committed such a crime. Maybe the truth will come out in court -- but regardless of its finale, the case has shoved the debate over date rape into the minds of average men and women. Plant the topic in a conversation, and chances are it will ripen into a bitter argument or a jittery sequence of pale jokes...