Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anne Bancroft still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also plays the unpossessed sequences with an overflowing wholesomeness, while Huxley discloses her character as both bitter and shallow...
...Heroes. There are many Vietnamese heroes of the long war. One of the most bemedaled is Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Thanh Yen, 42, of the Vietnamese marines, who has spent 15 years fighting the Communists. A bitter, brown gnomish man called the "Little Tiger," Yen last week, as he always does, was walking every step of the way with his 1,400-man Vietnamese task force in Operation Concord. Beside him was his adviser, U.S. Marine Major William Leftwich, 34, whom one of his superiors has called "the best American adviser in the country." They set out early in the dazzling...
...composed it in seven days, along with background music for the whole show, despite a recent stroke that has paralyzed his right side (he had to write it with the left hand). Interspersed with Actor Hugh O'Brian's reading of the poem were songs by the Bitter End Singers, the Serendipity Singers, Anita Bryant, Mahalia Jackson and the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill, who dressed in buckskins and boots to belt out Oklahoma! and Tumblin' Tumbleweed...
...whites, 11,000 Negroes), they managed to coexist-until six weeks ago. Then, when the president of the town's N.A.A.C.P. chapter was cruelly maimed by a booby-trap bomb wired to his automobile accelerator, Natchez Negroes could no longer contain their anger. Week by week, as bitter anti-Klan demonstrations have expanded to protest other longstanding Negro grievances, Natchez has inched toward the flash point...
...letter bore no date-only "Havana, Year of Agriculture."* It was signed by Argentine-born Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Castro's longtime No. 2 man, who has been missing for seven months after a bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly...