Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of words, the dislocated syntax, the archaisms like "trapt" or the frequent use of accents--all show a taste for the bitter, explosive, tactile qualities of words that few poets demonstrate in greater intensity than Dylan Thomas. Occasionally the language slides off into bluster, or mist...
...effort to make the distinction between the two of them clear and efficient. It is as if the poet, arguing from a feared poverty of emotional or experiential resources, has peopled his poem with a number of lively selves that cooperate in the restoration of personality. A bright, bitter, courtly, intensely human man is writing an autobiographical poem that turns autobiography inside out, and converts it into the sharp images of the hallucination, the cinema and the dream...
...biggest holding companies, the Alleghany Corp., is constantly creating spectacular business news. A 1954 proxy fight in which Alleghany's progenitors, the late Robert Young and aging Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, now 73, took control of the New York Central Railroad was big and bitter. Next, in one of Wall Street's most famous proxy battles, Kirby lost Alleghany to Texans Clint and John Murchison (TIME cover, June 16, 1961), later won it back again by stubbornly outsitting and outbuying them...
...Soviet Union's leaders showed no signs of particular unhappiness about the outcome; many of the bitter anti-Communists the Russians objected to have stepped down from party leadership, and the new leader, Rafael Paasio, 63, emphasizes that his party wants good relations with Russia. President Kekkonen was clearly trying to keep everyone happy by calling on the Social Democrats to explore the possibility of forming a coalition government from Finland's seven parties, including the Communists...
...Everyone in Cuba is bitter," said one young mother from Camaguey, who arrived in Miami last week. "There isn't much food, rice is rationed, and you have to stand in line every day for coffee. Cuba is a jail." Added her husband, a former railroad shop foreman: "They don't give you work if you are not with the government, and if you are with the government, you have to cut sugar cane, join the militia and stand guard." Cubans who decide to leave lose everything. Those in nonessential jobs are summarily fired, and must sign over...