Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near children, and certainly not near children whose color they despise. How they get to them--how they have been slotted in these classrooms--by what process of political string-pulling they have ended up here, most of us will never know. But the fact remains--it is a bitter one indeed--that the Boston schools are riddled with mediocre, unwell, ignorant and brutal teachers. Alcoholism, creeping senility, mental instability in permanent faculty members are thoroughly documented, known well both to children and to school department officials, and continue uncorrected to the present time...
...number of reasons the powerful, awesome campaign that people expected Kevin White to display after the September preliminary elections has failed to develop. A fear that Mrs. Hicks would benefit by being cast as the underdog and a fierce bitterness on the part of some of the unsuccessful candidates has prevented the formation of a clear coalition of unsuccessful Mayoralty candidates, important Massachusetts politicians, and Boston businessmen behind White. While one or two of the unsuccessful candidates have been quietly working with potential contributors and politicians on White's behalf, the failure to achieve public pledges of support from...
...economic problem is complicated by Indonesian antagonism toward the country's 3,000,000 Chinese, who control some 70% of the country's businesses. After the Peking-inspired attempt to grab Indonesia by coup, the Indonesian public turned on the Chinese in their midst in a bitter pogrom, thus further upsetting the country's frail economy. Outside big cities and district capitals, Chinese may no longer own businesses. Chinese schools have been closed, Chinese organizations ordered disbanded and Chinese papers banned except for two run by the government. "There are too many of them," says Foreign Minister...
...hope comes from a kindly farmer, Samuel Turner, whose surname Nat assumes. When the young slave steals a book, his master sees proof that Nat is no less a man than himself. An educational experiment begins, during which the pupil absorbs the rudiments of scholarship along with a bitter truth: "The preacher was right. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow...
...still nine years before Nat revolts, nine years in which to feed on the vengeful rantings of Old Testament prophets and to mature a "disbelief which verged close upon madness, then a sense of betrayal, then fury such as I had never known before, then, finally, hatred so bitter that I grew dizzy." The hatred is directed against Samuel Turner, the man who invited him to dream...