Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mildly, the thirty-odd white, middle-aged working men in my class at the Veterans' Division of Newbury Junior College did not agree. "He's a bitter man!" "A Communist!" "A fag" they'd cried when I'd read them the excerpt in our classroom at St. Mary's High School in Central Square, and for a while their venom threatened to dissolve fragile bonds of trust built with their Harvard graduate-student teacher over six short weeks...
...made some sense to the men but it hurt, and seemed to them, ironically, to come from "ultra-liberal" Harvard. Baldwin spoke to "Harvard types" too, didn't he? I felt angry and isolated--from the class, because, despite my sympathy with the men, I couldn't stomach the bitter mistrust and racism; and from "liberal" (really "corporate") Harvard where I'd never felt at home. As I left St. Mary's one night, a police siren warbled and the ground beneath me seemed to swim. Is there no peace...
Despite the fighting, Lebanon's Christian-Moslem Cabinet managed to hold its regular session at midweek, after which Premier Karami declared, "I'm getting all warring parties to accept a compromise settlement to bring the bitter fight to an end." The passions that divide Lebanon's factions have shattered a score of cease-fires so far, how ever, and the air force's entry into the fighting further weakens the already slim possibility of a lasting truce. Syria's armed forces chief of staff, Major Gen eral Hikmat Shehabi, arrived in Beirut just before...
Taliaferro whites are still bitter about the federal receivership, claiming that the order destroyed the county's school system. Blacks are simply resigned. Says George Hughes, a Crawfordville black leader: "The courts did the only thing they could do. But you just can't force white students to go to the public schools...
Henry Kissinger, once a darling of the leftists, is now the target of a bitter barrage from the liberal news media because of his acceptance of an appointment as Mr. Nixon's Secretary of State. All week the liberals were excoriating his as a deep-dyed villain. One of the commonest complaints against him is that he is not only a Jew, but speaks with a German-Jewish accent! This charge was leveled over an interlocking cabal of TV networks and newspapers which are themselves owned and operated by Jews...