Word: bitterly
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This fall a flurry of competitive editions are coming out in Europe and the U.S., over Solzhenitsyn's bitter and repeated public protests and disavowals. One is his novel The First Circle, rushed into print by Harper & Row in a translation that is often unreadable and sometimes ludicrously inaccurate. It will also appear as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in November. In the original, The First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a scathing, ironic portrayal of life in Russia in 1948 and its concentric circles of hell expanding out from Stalin, who has never been made so frighteningly...
...great majority of his followers would agree. Some have even gritted their teeth and gone to the aid of their party. But many of them are bitter, angry and frustrated; a number of youthful campaigners now actively op pose Humphrey by working in Nixon's youth division. A few disgruntled Mid west supporters even vow that they will protest by voting for George Wallace. Ann Hart, Michigan Senator Phil Hart's daughter, who tirelessly helped from New Hampshire on, says she cannot "in conscience" vote for Humphrey. Sue Moores, a 27-year-old Seattle housewife, puts her objection...
...because its managing director, John Clark, 42, had announced his own intention last month of taking over English Electric. But Clark reckoned without Arnold Weinstock, 44, British G.E.'s acquisitive boss, who made his company the industry leader by winning control of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. in a bitter takeover battle last year. Weinstock heard the news of Clark's designs on English Electric while vacationing at his Wiltshire farm, promptly began his own negotiations with the company...
...France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best of all is Marc Pico, a young French documentary-film director making his debut as an actor. I He does not so much play Antonio as become him, reflecting with puzzlement and pain the bitter reality of a man who sees himself turning slowly into an imprisoned object...