Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter critics charge, however, that Kissinger deliberately misled the South Vietnamese to buy a "decent interval" during which the U.S. could withdraw its troops and leave Saigon strong enough to survive a few years so that when the collapse came, it would not be viewed as a setback for Washington...
...away for good. To be sure, the shells were still being fired and the countryside wasted, but Vietnamese were now fighting Vietnamese. The memories of a divided America, the alienation of the young, the riots and marches, the massacres and courts-martial-for many, these were still alive and bitter. But the U.S. had finally extricated itself from a war that had traumatized American society for a whole generation...
After the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967, however, and the Khartoum conference that voted continuing Arab support for Egypt and other confrontation countries, Faisal's role changed. As anti-Zionist as he was antiCommunist, the King lavishly subsidized Arab governments battling Israel. He grew ever more bitter against Israel in recent years, most often mak ing no distinction between religious Jews (whom he professed to respect) and political Zionists. Until recently, he made no exception to his ban on Jews entering Saudi Arabia and distributed free copies of that discredited anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the (Learned...
Last week Hewish's receipt of that award became embroiled in a bitter controversy. At a press conference at Montreal's McGill University, Britain's Sir Fred Hoyle, a noted astronomer, theoretician, science fiction writer (The Black Cloud) and scientific gadfly, had charged that Hewish "pinched" the prize for himself by failing to give Jocelyn Bell proper credit. Asked by a reporter if he considered it a scientific injustice to leave Bell out of the award, Hoyle replied: "Yes, I think it was a scientific scandal of major proportions...
...film is less cheeky (or less visually sumptuous) than its predecessor. It is merely a modest claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan and the rest back just One more...