Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sports-Car Type. Domestic opposition to Menderes is growing, and is becoming increasingly bitter. Some longtime members of the Democratic Party have resigned in disgust. More ominous are the first signs of disaffection in Turkey's heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says...
...special charm of the quaint old British colony was the ample corps of cheerful servants. But the black men who drive the taxis and tote the trays of rum punches had their private thoughts about the white minority that runs the island. Last week old resentments exploded into a bitter general strike. For the story of the crippling effect on a tourist economy, see HEMISPHERE. Strike for Power...
...Interior, abruptly bowed out. Behind-the-scenes reason: ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel and the man with a firm grip on Ohio G.O.P. purse-strings, told Bender that the party was reasonablysatisfied with Republican Incumbent C. William O'Neill, could not standa bitter primary fight...
...waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting Vanessa depart for a new life in Paris. In a familiar living-death type of ending (recalling Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra...
...Bored. As if the figures were not bad enough, the Feaster Report has some bitter words to say about pupil and teacher attitudes. "Regardless of the types of schools the pupils have come up through, however much interest in learning a very significant proportion (36%) of them had in grades six and eight is completely, or almost completely, gone by the twelfth grade . . . When more than three out of every four seniors in four large high schools call schooling exasperating and tedious, the situation is too serious to be laughed...