Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long-Term Confrontation. Few military men expect Hanoi to launch a full-scale invasion across the DMZ-though Sharp says: "I just hope they do. Then we can use our firepower." But most experts foresee a bitter, long-term confrontation in I Corps, where the Communists' supply lines and infiltration routes are shortest. For that reason, the U.S. has airlifted nearly a full Army division into the area, while the South Vietnamese have rushed in three elite battalions to augment the thinly stretched forces on the spot-Lieut. General Lewis Walt's 75,000 U.S. Marines, two understrength...
Limelight was essentially a tragedy, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and A King In New York bitter social satires. Countess, his first film in over ten years, marks Chaplin's return to a kind of comedy he hadn't created since Modern Times. In many respects the comedy is similar to that of the earlier films. Though American comedy since Lubitsch and Wilder has tended increasingly toward the verbal, Chaplin still largely ignores the potential of comic dialogue, emphasizing the visual jokes instead...
...church begins and the world leaves off. The role of the churches in the past 100 years can be seen in several distinct phases. The first big social problem confronting them was slavery, and the resulting North-South split of the denominations. Next came the problem of industrialization, with bitter conflicts between capital and labor that led the churches into preaching the optimistic "Social Gospel" of the early 1900s. But the Depression and World War II were too harsh a reality for many ministers, and they followed Reinhold Niebuhr into acceptance of a Bible-centered "crisis theology...
...paper's management gave Karafin his severance pay-47 weeks worth-belatedly instructed all reporters to notify the company of any outside employment. One reporter who admitted doing freelance work for a public relations firm was warned to sever these ties immediately. And then "with profound sadness and bitter regret" the Inquirer published in this week's Sunday edition a ten-column story all about the mucky career of Star Reporter Harry J. Karafin...
...placement of the photographs at the Fogg develops several sharp, non-personal themes. Between a Mathew Brady portrait of a group of war-weary generals (close examination reveals that one of them has lost an arm) and two pictures of destitute sons of the Depression, hands Richard Avedon's bitter portrait of the fact of the land. This pictures of a bejeweled back and enormous rump surrounded by 10 formally-dressed old women, is actually "The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution...