Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitchy. The material was exactly what you would expect: "Joe Hill," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," and an a cappella "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -- very competent, sort of boring. She also sang "Diamonds and Rust" from her new album which is explicitly about Dylan and pretty bitter: "If you're offering me diamonds and rust/ I've already paid...
Biggie is sneeringly bitter about Fred's deserting him on the way to the big time. Each of the old gang reveals himself to be a sycophant, a drunk or a cynic, yet touchingly human. Each has an aria-styled monologue to show how his spirit has been charred by life. Fred's is the most melodramatic: he tells of how his father forced him, as an adolescent, to spy on his mother and her suspected lover from a fire escape...
...spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along a wall that's sheer and steep and endless, dressed/ With bits of broken bottles on its crest"). Part is due to the writer's stoic career. Like an earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where he contributes...
...certain about their chances in the election. Stephen D. Buckley, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, says that although he is "hoping for a good showing," he doesn't expect to garner more than 800 of a possible 40,000 votes. A somewhat bitter A. George Catavolo, an Independent, said his chances in the election are slim, even though he feels he is "perfectly qualified" for a position on the school committee. "When you're an idealist, a practical family man who wants to improve the system, nobody wants you," he said...
...during the concert, but such messages sound simple when separated from their roots. Reggae is street music from the West Kingston slum, Trenchtown, and springs from the mass of poor, disenfranchised black Jamaicans. On the one hand reggae is a transcendent music. On the other it is an extremely bitter and very political expression of social injustice. This transcendent quality comes in songs like Who Feels It, Knows It, from Jimmy Cliff's latest album...