Word: bitterness
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They do, and they are African Americans. The 70-year-old dean is branded as a racist, which is a bitter irony. Since graduating from Howard University as a "Negro" (black by birth, his skin is "white as snow," according to his mother), Silk has passed as a Jewish intellectual...
Allowing only a single walk, Chymbor's control prevented Harvard from capitalizing on its opportunities and turning yesterday's game from a nail-bitter into a rout...
Frankly, I was shocked, because I don't think of myself as bitter about Harvard. But when I set out to be funny, without realizing it I became positively angry. The speech turned out to be as out-of-place at a happy occasion as Janet Reno backstage at a Miami Sound Machine concert...
...course, I have been bitter before. During reading period of my first year, my first Boston winter kept me indoors, studying, for most of the time. In my room, the only thing to eat was instant oatmeal--it was like being stranded on an iceberg with Wilford Brimley. There was also some very ratty luck with relationships. My smarts did not qualify me to manage my love life in the same way that sonar does not qualify a porpoise to drive a bus. So there I was, over-fibered and under-loved, and I thought of Stanford. Sweet, beautiful Stanford...
...reminded of what Nietzsche said..."--"I'm sorry, this is a physics class"). During these sections, we do seem like gold-plated piles of manure--well-packaged but ultimately full of the same old crap. Exposed to this side of Harvard for too long, I became bitter without even knowing...