Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When crossed, Wilson was intransigent, bitter, even vindictive. "Wilson's intransigence in the matter of [the eating clubs], his refusal to compromise . . . his refusal to treat tolerantly those who opposed him were among the major mistakes of his career." In the graduate-school fight, Wilson "shifted from one issue to another and it was almost impossible to tell where he . . . stood. . . . The vagaries of his mind during this period are unfathomable...
...action sequences in "Carmen" are well done and the continuity--usually hampered when a foreign picture is cut for export--is good. Minor sketches of a fortune-telling gypsy and a one-eyed bandit are among the picture's high-spots, but the high-spots are few. The bitter revenge that motivated Merimee's unhappy soldier, and his fatal attachment for Carmen, are hinted at here but never realistically portrayed, and thus to main thread of the plot is expressed more by subtle implication than by forceful story-telling. But judging from the advertisements, subtle implications are what the public...
Despite the rain, the wind, and the bitter cold, which have messed up playing conditions for at least three matches--sweating out 36 holes in the wet is no fun--some creditably low tallies have been registered. Tyke Wilcox, lead-off man in the links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon...
...half-million mark. In Rome, Foreign Minister Count Carlo Sforza was on his way to the Foreign Office when a crowd surrounded his car and mauled him. Cried Sforza: "I know you want bread! I work 16 hours a day so you'll get it." The bitter reply: "You work-but we can't." The Government, a paralytic coalition of Christian Democrats, Communists and Socialists, was bogged down in tripartite squabbles; too many of the people merely said: "The Government bores...
...films which try with any honesty to say anything remotely worth saying, this one does not, in its last reel or so, duck out from under. In Chaplin's last minutes, instead, he opens up with his heaviest guns, and sticks by them to the bitter end. In the whole two hours of the film, there is not one instant of bidding in any shabby way for the audience's sympathy. Morally alone, this is a remarkable thing to have done...