Word: bitterness
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...Aida happened to be good friends with this Ukrainian student [who] sued Eliot House, and [the House] lost money and were bitter about it," he said...
...amazed 30 years later at how impassioned and how bitter the feelings of some of the Faculty were," he says. "For another 20 years, at least, this is going to rank as the major cataclysm in Harvard history...
Although he says he is not bitter about its actions, he insists that Harvard should not have made such a biased political decision...
...example, the Salient has such a fetish for printing frequent and bitter attacks on affirmative action and feminism that one is forced to consider two equally frightening and bizarre alternatives: either the magazine is actually a freakish parody of contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...
...Vogue but more brilliantly at Vanity Fair, where she became managing editor. One of her first contributions to the magazine was a flip little profile of Time?s co-founder Henry R. Luce. They married in 1935. His magazines prospered, including Life, which she virtually invented, but, to her bitter disappointment, was not allowed to edit. And despite mixed reviews, her plays were popular successes. But as ?Rage for Fame? ends, with Clare?s election to Congress in 1942, the Luces are visibly at odds -- and clearly not for the last time. Morris struggles for fairness but portrays Luce...