Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial structure rested last week with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. While Johnson is dead set against a strictly presidential commission because he fears that it might be dominated by big business and big banking, he is equally afraid that a House investigation alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along the lines of the Hoover Commission on Organ ization of the Executive...
...Exchequer last fall, put forth a counterscheme, broader but less radical than the Common Market. He proposed the creation of a Free Trade Area in Europe, to take in not just the Common Market Six, but twelve other European nations besides. The Six, who have all had previous bitter experience with British delaying tactics, said fine-but we want to create the Common Market first. The Free Trade Area would...
...Waltz of the Toreadors (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) is an often hilarious French sex farce. As just that, it is conceivably the best envelope Anouilh has yet found for conveying his philosophic approach to life, with its bitter personal tang, its overprotesting cynicism, its disillusionment so dark as to suggest illusions once far too rosy. In Waltz, by reducing to caricature the romantic attitudes that get men betrayed, he more nearly rises to truth than when steadily whiplashing the betrayers. As Ring Round the Moon also showed, he achieves a detachment in a world...
...autos swooshed onto the market, with all of their fins, fantails and flanges, they have been the object of an extraordinary amount of comment. Some of it has been admiring, some has been funny, and some-from motorists who want more fish and less fin -has been downright bitter. Last week in the New Republic (circ. 29,453), Cartoonist Robert Osborn had his say (see cuts) with sharp effect...
...Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...