Word: bitterness
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CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...January left us, and with it exams, the start of a bright new semester loomed. I use "loomed" because, even though I believed only brightness could follow bitter January, "overarching melancholy" instead fills the emptiness (as a friend put it melodramatically). But why melancholy, in this Yard so coveted and new dining hall so extravagant...
...distinct way "Lady Windemere's Fan" does much to complicate this picture. One strain throughout the play ruthlessly satirizes the double standards for sexual activity applied to men versus women, but another takes a genuinely bitter look at the damning effects that even the slightest hint of impropriety could have on one's social viability...
...what works precisely as a way to differentiate them is to say that they represent three different versions of success in America. The constant, bitter, obsessive competition among these ways of getting ahead defines not just this presidential campaign but much of American life...
...Oliver M. Schmidt, a German visiting fellow in the History Department, this bitter story rings true. While we may sympathize with his loss, we can also learn some valuable lessons from this tragedy...