Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning that the civil rights movement was "very, very close" to a split, he exhorted believers in nonviolence to become "more forthright, more aggressive, more militant." Late last year he added: "We have learned from hard and bitter experience that our Government does not move to correct a problem involving race until it is confronted directly and dramatically." At the end, he was organizing the massive march of the poor on Washington-and if Congress proved recalcitrant, he threatened to obstruct the national political conventions...
...seismic impact of Johnson's withdrawal statement has only begun to be felt. Politically, it means a bitter battle for the succession among Democrats and an anguished reappraisal among Republicans concerning Richard Nixon's chances for election in November. Within the U.S., it could mark the beginning of a frenetic effort by Johnson to complete the record of domestic legislation that he wants to stand as history's yardstick for his presidency. In foreign affairs, it could bring more intense efforts to end the war?either by negotiations or by heavier fighting. In any event, the President no longer...
...Never. Deep-dyed fatalism and the durable myth of Frankenstein surface from Durrell's dazzling assemblage. There are reams of the kind of beautiful travel and nature writing for which his Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus have been praised. There are flashes of the ribald wit that makes his volumes about the British diplomatic corps such delights. But there is also much over writing. The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard." The mixed metaphors are painful...
...convention would go to L.B.J. (for a total of 1,725 convention votes, more than 400 above the 1,312 needed for nomination), with the remainder divided among others-790 votes for Kennedy and McCarthy, 61 for Alabama's George Wallace. Predicted Harry Truman, who survived a bitter party rift in 1948 to win the nomination: "The regular Democrats will go down the line to re-elect the President, unless some damn fool splits them...
...Bitterness & Frustration. Westmoreland's friends are already saying that he was overdirected from Washington and forced to fight a war on the cheap. The general himself is known to be bitter about the flak from home and frustrated by what he thinks has been a letdown in support from the Administration. The timing of last week's announcement is not likely to mollify him. Not only did it occur at a juncture when the allies are on the defensive, but, coming so early, it may pull the commander's punch. "Why the hell did they announce...