Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCHISM, bitterness, demands for violent solution, disenchantment with the way things are, fear of what may be-these are the forces, some would say the demons, that are loose in the U.S. in 1968. The demons accompanied the Democrats to Chicago. A deeply divided party met amid paroxysms of violence in the city and obsessive security measures that surrounded a major function of U.S. democracy with the air of a police state. A bitter but rational argument about the Vietnamese war was traumatically translated into street battles between protesters and police. Nominees and other speakers spent valuable time condemning...
Flagrant Violation. The reaction throughout the free world was predictably bitter. Charles de Gaulle, his bridge building to the East in ruins, deplored the attack on "the rights and destiny of a friendly nation" and rapped the Russians for still being so old-fashioned as to think of Europe in terms of blocs. Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the attack "a flagrant violation of all accepted standards of international behavior." In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her "concern and anguish," but her statement was not strong enough to please members of Parliament, who filled the chamber with cries...
Though in some places the crowds did not live up to expectations, the Pope was engulfed by a roar of emotion everywhere he went. For Paul, the acclaim was a tonic. After months of agonizing over his encyclical on birth control, then weeks of widespread and often bitter criticism, here was simple, uncomplicated, old-fashioned affection. The papal presence transformed Colombia's somber capital, insulated 8,355 ft. high on a plateau between two Andean ranges, into a scene of sheer, uninhibited joy. Shoulder to shoulder, an estimated 500,000 bogotanos lined the eight-mile route to town, straining...
Though Ulbricht had come to Czechoslovakia to sign the Bratislava truce along with the Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Bulgarians two weeks ago, the Czechoslovaks soon discovered that Ulbricht remained a bitter opponent. In talks at the spa of Karlovy Vary that lasted from mid-morning until 2 a.m. the next day, Ulbricht attacked Dubcek's internal reforms and warned against any shift in Prague's foreign policy that would further undermine East bloc unity (see following story). The Czechoslovaks were willing to reassure Ulbricht about their foreign policy, but they insisted that they needed...
Despite the bitter violence of last spring's rebellion, Columbia University's summer session has been surprisingly placid. Student radicals quietly conducted their own "Summer Liberation School" in a university-owned frat house, enticing nearly 600 young activists to such courses as racism in textbooks and Marxist philosophy. An uncoordinated assortment of trustee, alumni, faculty and student committees ponderously probed the campus problems -but to such little effect that chaos is likely to greet the reopening of classes next month...