Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marek Hlasko, whose bitter novel The Eighth Day of the Week was a product of the temporary Polish thaw, has chosen voluntary exile, and he will not be welcomed back should he return. Polish Communist intellectuals, who have been spared some austerities under the Gomulka regime, are dismayed at the implications of the Pasternak case. "For many of them," the New York Times said, "what counted most was the belief that the whole episode would wind up in a much tougher attitude toward intellectuals...
...intellectuals cannot forget Khrushchev's dictum: "The question of whether he is free or not does not exist for any artist who faithfully serves his people..." Official criticism of Pasternak is still bitter, despite adverse world opinion, and the hope of another thaw...
...Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...
...formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting a way out of an otherwise bitter, abrasive impasse on the question of test suspension...
...Thousands who never knew that Casey Jones had actually existed still sang of him-and of the other papa on the Salt Lake Line. And last week, impoverished and bitter, Janie Jones, 92, died in Jackson. She had never remarried...