Word: bitterly
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...nucleus of the 2005-06 team, the preseason pick to finish second in the league. Both squads got off to strong starts, going 8-5 in non-conference play and sweeping Dartmouth to enter the heart of the season 10-5. Those high expectations soon gave way to bitter disappointment. The 2002-03 team began its slide by dropping a tough game at Princeton, the start of a four-game road losing streak that doomed the Crimson. This year’s team fared better on the road, taking two of three and a 4-1 record to Cornell...
...history of comic books. In 1982 Moore--who also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face of Guy Fawkes. (Who--again, if you're English--you know as the proto-terrorist who tried and failed...
...overall, the episodes are as acute and thrilling as the past five seasons. Chase continues to resist the TV standards of closure and lessons learned. Instead of epiphany and reconciliation, he gives us self-deception and bitter, hilarious irony. More than once, Tony says out loud how fortunate he is. The realization is not nearly as profound as he thinks it is-it doesn't lead him to be any more humble or generous or less self-pitying than ever. But as a simple statement it is probably the most honest insight about himself he's ever...
...years old. It was a reminder of how young he was—just 41—when he became president in 1971. If you think Harvard is in “crisis” now, it was nothing compared to the mess Bok inherited: a university divided, bitter and exhausted by battles over the Vietnam war, including the infamous decision by his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, to call the cops into the Yard when students occupied University Hall. By the time my class arrived on campus in 1975, Bok’s calm and deliberate...
...anonymous submissions to an online blog. It materialized on stage “without a hitch,” according to one of the directors, Catherine P. Walleck ’06. In one of the monologues, a group of students waits for the late-night shuttle in the bitter cold. The shuttle dispatcher asks one of them, “What are the genders of the people in your party?” To avoid confusing him, she answers “Uh, we’re all female,” which infuriates her friends, among them...