Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened a Manchester press conference with some of the disarming self-mockery that has become a trademark recently: "I should make one thing clear at the outset. This is not my last press conference." In 1962, he had counted himself out of politics-and press conferences-with a bitter attack on reporters in California; now he virtually proclaimed Journalism Day. He put the press conference off for two hours because some out-of-state reporters had been delayed by bad weather. Afterward he held a reception for newsmen. All the while, he was proving himself capable of supplying answers that...
...solicitor had "no feelings--one way or the other" about the bitter division in the city council over the firing of former city manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29; but he hoped that it "would subside at some point...
Well-stocked with everything from bitter to brandy, St. Mary's pub initially drew a full house of miniskirted birds and their dates, who demurely sipped pints of beer as they listened to music by a folk-rock group. At 11, when Stacey's bar closed, the youngsters left quietly, happily-and sober. Explaining his odd addition to St. Mary's services, Stacey argued that most of the area's youth clubs have been closed down because of vandalism, and the regularly licensed pubs near the church are "revolting." "All we are trying...
Died. Yvor Winters, 67, poet, critic and longtime (1937-66) Stanford literature professor; of cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...
...attractions is Albert's father. Sol Abrams is an aging doctor, bitter, brilliant, physically powerful, with a face like a Cherokee's-in fact, line for line the same corrosive old Olympian who dominated The Last Angry Man. It is a pleasure to hear him roar at the world again, even if the neighborhood has gone downhill and even if he knocks Green's memoir slightly out of shape...