Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The scandalous French author's controversial classic in a new, unexpurgated version that softens neither the obscenities nor the bitter antiSemitism...
...Nixon boomlet has especially strong support among Southerners, as well as among Midwestern and Rocky Mountain conservatives, many of whom remain bitter over Romney's refusal to support Barry Goldwater. At the same time, party professionals of every hue are mindful of Nixon's yeoman efforts on the stump both in 1964 and 1966. Separate polls last week by the Associated Press and CBS each showed G.O.P. national committee men-or at least those who responded-preferring Nixon over Romney by 3-to-2 margins. The results, however, may be deceptive. "If you're really undecided...
...dissent was unusually bitter. Condemning the "blunderbuss fashion" in which the majority acted, Justice Tom Clark blazed that "no court has ever reached out so far to destroy so much with so little." The argument of vagueness is flimsy, he continued, since the language of Feinberg "obviously springs from" such federal statutes as the Smith Act, which the court has previously upheld. He added that the decision's wording is so broad that henceforth no state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation...
...BITTER HERITAGE: VIET NAM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 126 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Outside Help. The climb, to be sure, was not all due to internal causes. Much of it has come since President John son's State of the Union message; along with such bitter pills as higher taxes, the President also promised such palliatives as easier money and spoke against the wartime wage and price controls that Wall Street fears. In addition, last week came predictions from Washington that last year's sharp rise in consumer prices was likely to ease off this year, which also pleases the Street. By March, if the market does indeed roll into...