Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor, for instance, means it when he says that the CCA is run by "carpetbaggers," and that he could do as well in getting out the votes if he had a ward and precinct organization financed by payoffs from Cambridge industries. CCA leaders, Shaplin in particular, are just as bitter about the Mayor and his treatment of them in the School Committee...
...first play, Escurial, by the modern French playwright Michel de Ghelderode, is by far the better performed of the double bill, the other half of which is a Moliere farce, Les Precieuses Ridicules. Ghelderode's play is bitter, ambiguous at times to the point of obscurity, but a fearsome dramatic tension is maintained for the very reason that one is unsure of the details of the situation. It involves a pseudo-farcical biplay between a king waiting for the dying of his wife and his all-too-knowing clown, leading to a frightening and tragic revelation...
...Kumasi last week two wigged British barristers, both of them Queen's Counsels, fought a bitter battle before barelegged, toga-clad blacks to determine the right of the deported Moslems to return to Ghana. For Nkrumah's government, portly Attorney General Geoffrey Bing (TIME, Sept. 30) argued that Ghana's Parliament has "absolute and complete power to legislate on any subject whatever," and no court may review any act not specifically forbidden by the constitution...
...that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity of the two stories seemed proof that Déjoie-backer Talamas was in cahoots with the killers. Rushing to Talamas' house, they found a sporting rifle and two revolvers...
Capitalist Shangri-La. Bitter over high taxes, Government interference, the scorn of intellectuals and the reproof of religious leaders, the really tough-minded tycoons gradually withdraw from society to a hideout in the mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers...