Word: bitterly
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...reduces the effect to a kind of puppet show. The women's roles are played by men, also a custom with the ancients. At the outset, this is forceful and a trifle unsettling. Yet eventually the lack of sexual differentiation erases the central fact that this is a bitter domestic tragedy...
Millais sided with Effie, but he is a bad witness. He traveled in Scotland with the Ruskins to paint John's portrait, and his letters, which had steadily praised Ruskin, abruptly shifted to bitter criticism at precisely the time when he seems to have fallen in love. An extraordinary and crucial figure was Effie's precocious ten-year-old sister Sophie, who carried scabrous tales back and forth among Effie, Ruskin and Ruskin's parents. At one point, Sophie told Effie: "He says, you are so wicked that he was warned by all his friends...
...nearly a month, Greece has been gripped by a bitter and highly significant struggle. On one side were the hard-lining former military officers, who sought to perpetuate their rigidly moralistic rule. Pitted against them were the more moderate revolutionary leaders, who favored an eventual return to some form of parliamentary government. After a series of shifts and political maneuvers, it is finally clear that the moderates, led by Premier George Papadopoulos, have emerged the winners. Their victory signaled the start of a new chapter in Greece's post-revolutionary development...
...Boys in the Band--A funny and bitter play about a homosexual birthday party. The action and dialogue (by Mart Crowley) are grimly explicit, and the cast (under Robert Moore's direction) is flawless. Totally engrossing and not to be missed. At THEATRE FOUR, 424 W. 55th...
...than to bloat its importance by turning bunglers into martyrs, who could then receive at last the sympathy and support of the bulk of the students, and whose sense of being the victims of Faculty and Administration repressiveness would then be vindicated. The escalation of bitter confrontation is in nobody's interest. What happened here was not at all of the same order of magnitude as what was done by others at Berkeley of Columbia. Here, there was coercion, but no violence; violation of a rule, and a kind of obstruction, but no real occupation or damage...