Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That painful decision, say some who know Margaret, drove the unhappy princess into her marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. Margaret was bitter following the Townsend bust-up, and seemed intent on getting even by finding a partner whose marital status was suitable but who conspicuously lacked the usual aristocratic Establishment credentials. For this scenario, Tony Armstrong-Jones seemed perfect: well-enough educated (Eton, Cambridge) but more than a little bohemian, a trendy, fast-living commoner who dared to court Margaret by inviting her-so friends said-to a balconied flat he had rented overlooking the Thames docks...
...much less with the Stalinist Communist Party of the USA. Eastman and Burnham were both Troskyists who regarded Stalin as a Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow a path to socialism different from that envisioned by Marx. Dos Passos was a pragmatist who never joined the Party and who was less a Marxist than merely an anticapitalist. The most glaring...
...bitter conflict between China and the Soviet Union for ideological leadership of the Communist world is usually confined to a war of angry words. But not always. TIME has learned that in recent months there have been severe outbreaks of fighting near the Ussuri and Amur rivers, which constitute the ultra-sensitive border between China and Siberia, where several bloody skirmishes took place in 1969. This time the clashes, detected by Western aerial reconnaissance, have been carefully hushed up. Why? The Soviets do not want to advertise the border conflict when they are trying to assess the murky ideological struggle...
...Bitter Clash. Browning then called Dr. Joel Fort, a San Francisco practitioner in mental health. The prosecution hoped that he would offset the eminent defense psychiatrists, who supported Bailey's contention that Patty had been coerced by the S.L.A. into helping to rob the bank. An eye-catching figure with a shaved head, Fort clashed bitterly with Bailey; at one point, the two accused each other of lying. Fort testified that he had interviewed Patty for 15 hours, studied documents on the case for some 300 hours, and even spent an hour in one of the closets where...
...sentenced me to only twenty years' imprisonment to make it plain that I did not deserve a life sentence. But in reality they have physically and mentally destroyed me. Ah, these spokesmen of humanitarianism! Only twenty years!" Is this the predictable lament of every prisoner, or is it the bitter, uncomprehending outrage of a man who simply does not understand his own criminality...