Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McKissick is a bitter man. Gregory seeks publicity. With men like Brooke, Young and Wilkins, Negroes have the leadership they deserve...
...time by maximum utilization of material: most of his articles are on subjects he already knows, and he has a repertory of three or four lectures, which can be altered for the occasion with little extra effort, and may then be expanded into a book. His newest volume, The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, went through just such permutations before appearing in hardcover...
...picture of Mrs. Hicks, with her tiny, timid, tense voice, reading a speech full of resolute bitter language is not a pleasant one and is probably not one which she herself enjoys. But Mrs. Hicks has come to know great power and she realizes that to increase it she must continue her attacks on the reformers and arguments on behalf of the status...
...productive phase of the Institute's activities for undergraduates. The associates, according to the original conception, were supposed to let professors rub shoulders with policy-makers and to enthuse students with the prospect of politics. Neither aim has been well served. The visits of McNamara and Goldberg turned into bitter and exhausting confrontations with dissenting students, and the undergraduate meetings with other associates often turned out to be dull, especially for the associates. Many in the Institute have come to feel that future visitors should spend more time with faculty members and less with undergraduates...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The founding father of black humor in a new and splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose horrid childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred...