Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom fell out of the Harvard literature departments in the Seventies. They had failed to find new blood to continue Harvard's reputation into the next generation, while Yale, after a bitter battle with undertones of anti-Semitism, secured Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman, followed by several figures from Johns Hopkins...
After lengthy and often bitter negotiations, the Harvard Police officers' union has voted to approve a new contract, according to several sources...
...administration's underhandedness has put such a bitter taste in my mouth that I wonder if they shouldn't award an anti-Ford Foundation Grant to discourage undergraduates from entering academia. Various deans and committees have turned me from an eager potential scholar into a disillusioned cynic in just one year. Is this the Harvard legacy the administrators want to leave me? I hope they think about this at night when they're trying to go to sleep. I know I do. Ron Fein...
...Enrietto had bitter words for the researchers who in 1962 fed more than 60 retarded children doses of radioactive iodine...
Consider, on the other hand, the course outlines of departmental classes. required science and math courses' syllabi tend towards a straightforward format, rattling off requirements like items on a shopping list from hell. And chances are the writers of these bitter syllabi are not going to sugarcoat the courses, either. Chem 20's going to suck; it's going to suck hard; and there's nothing you can do about...