Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates, even though this means abandoning a few union members who are running as Carter delegates. In this way, Humphrey's backers hope to keep the Democratic race a three-man battle by stalling Carter. Prediets Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss: "It's going to be a bitter three weeks...
Even by Middle Eastern standards, it was a week of abnormal tension and turmoil. The carefully engineered truce imposed on that divided nation by Syria had collapsed (see below). Bitter fighting continued between hard-pressed Christian rightists and forces of the National Movement, an amalgam of Moslem leftists and Palestinians led by a gaunt, shambling politician-mystic, Kamal Jumblatt (see page 34), who vowed to fight on until Lebanon's antiquated sectarian political system was reformed...
...spoiled by the uptempo beat they provide. "On Susan's Floor" is a pleasant ballad, which seems out of place on this album. The best song on the side is again one of Williams's own, "(Baby I Loved You) I Really Did," which details a break-up as bitter as it is timely...
There is indeed an element of bitter irony here. The immorality of American intervention in Vietnam would have the result of creating a similarly immoral position of complete isolationism. Selective commitments, presumably based on moral as well as strategic criteria, are out, Ravenal tells us. The either/or possibilities suggested by Ravenal remind one of those who opposed the Vietnam War because it seemed the United States couldn't win. Those who stood against the war on moral and not tactical grounds would do well to consider for themselves the moral consequences of this Neo-Isolationism. Ravenal foresees a world...
...believed, this is how Hollywood seems to have been in the 1930s. There are moments-tough and outlandish-where we are temptingly close to the spirit of Fields as it has come down to us through his movies. They are sudden, brutal incidents of misanthropy (and misogyny) expressed in bitter humor that startles with the ring of truth...