Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What bitter tea it is to read that "two-way radio" [Aug. 25] has been "lifted" from its "ham" stage, .to its role as "key instrument in a mushrooming minute-man-like communications network!" TIME must know that since the 1920s the ham operator has provided emergency communications worldwide; has served in disaster areas, has often been the only link to scientific expeditions; has been active in space communications; has provided trained electronics personnel in wartime; has invested millions of dollars in communications equipment capable of operation independently of commercial power sources. Perhaps better to say that two-way radio...
...public," Randall Jarrell once wrote, "has an unusual relation with the poet. It does not even know that he is there." As if to refute this bitter complaint against an unpoetic age, two dozen of Jarrell's brother poets have joined in lament for his death and to explain the mysterious ways in which this minor poet had been of major importance to them...
...generous tribute, Robert Lowell called Jarrell "a Wordsworth with the obsessions of Lewis Carroll." He focused his poet's eye on a central moral problem of the age, which might be called the Eichmann syndrome, and expressed it in bitter doggerel...
...shipbuilding, metals, processed foods) conglomerate, the word connotes a company with "no unity, no purpose and no design."* To most image-conscious companies, the real conglomerates are thus the operations of men like Victor Muscat, a Manhattan-based entrepreneur whose corporate acquisitions generally follow no visible pattern, come after bitter takeover fights, and result in little in the way of new management initiatives...
...book is a bitter attack on all whites from the W.A.S.P. of the title-a liberal white lawyer who often defends destitute Negroes-to charitable foundations, welfare departments and anyone with white skin. Horwitz, a novelist (The Inhabitants) and former welfare investigator in New York City, has not bothered to draw characters or write a plot. His people speak strictly in paragraphs, the blacks detailing their misery, the whites chittering on about the hopelessness of it all and concocting theories about a racial murder. The book is written in honest wrath, but Horwitz is one of those whites who have...