Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposely set out to violate the western myth and "when the myth becomes legend I believe in printing the legend." The quote is a bastardization of a line delivered to Stewart in John ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and in its original context is a very bitter statement of an author (Ford) attempting to reevaluate his entire system of values. Stewart's recent use of the quote is not only far more common, it derives from a very dangerous assumption: that there is something which can be called the western myth, complete with characters conflicts, and values...
...actual content of her relation to her surroundings: she has no real power over them, but just looks at them with a romantic longing). Thus Ophuls undercuts his most romantic, beautiful sequence by reducing its heroine's awareness to that of a child. But this undercutting is not bitter. Lola's mode of existence and understanding during her childhood has its own validity and its place in her personal development; the romantic personality Ophuls is increasingly trapped in situations must pass through this free, isolated stage...
Some fans fancied the fight, which determined the heavyweight champion of six states (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas),* as a bitter white-black confrontation. But it was more a clash of styles: Quarry the classic, come-to-me counterpuncher v. Frazier the swarming, go-get-'em slugger. Beyond that, each man was hungry-ring talk for the kind of cunning and courage that are born of deprivation...
...Penn alumni were impressed by President Harnwell's pitch. Still irked at the Penn sit-in, one man declared: "For the time being I am putting the university on probation and withholding my annual contribution." A Harvard graduate of 1944 was even more bitter. After the spring disorders in Cambridge, he wrote to his class-gift chairman demanding his money back...
...another relocation camp i,n Montana, the father has abdicated his paterfamilias function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters...