Word: bitter
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...three principal Sonnenschein heirs are all played by Ralph Fiennes. The first of them, Ignatz, changes his name to Sors, in order to advance his career as a judge faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into...
...some, Clark too raises a concern with FAS; they say that without Faculty approval, it could be difficult for him to become president. For FAS, traditionally the University's center of pure scholarship and academia, a president from the business school--with business sensibilities and motivations--might be a bitter pill to swallow...
...Nearly three years later, student leaders have worked to return PBHA's focus to its programs, leaving aside the bitter political battles with the College. But the difficulties have not gone away...
...students and administrators reached a tentative compromise over the structure of the organization, and established a new governing body, a Board of Trustees consisting of students, PBHA supporters and College officials. 15 months later, the Board voted to make the temporary agreement permanent, and the tense period of bitter conflict between students and administrators came...
Once she got to Stanford, many first-years immediately recognized Anna as the Mandarin Chinese-speaking blond girl from the cover of the New York Times magazine. "I think it really struck a chord because I think a lot of people are kind of bitter they didn't get in," she says now. "It was really trippy... Everyone was like, 'Oh, I didn't get in either.' Blah, blah, blah. So then it really didn't seem like a big deal...