Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews and Jerusalem's 70,000 Arabs. Members of a strict Jewish sect called Natorei Karta (Guardians of the Wall) dressed in sackcloth because the parade took place on the second Monday after Passover, a sacred day of fast. As for the Arabs, many regarded it as a bitter reminder of past defeats. "It was an Israeli invasion," grumbled one young Arab doctor, who watched the show on television...
World War I and its bitter aftermath brought forth a new art in Germany. George Grosz's work, which has its roots in the Berlin Dada movement, attacks postwar German society with a viciousness that spares neither the Prussian military nor the lowest member of the Lumpenproletariat. Otto Dix's caricatures are equally bitter -- Dix spares not even himself. The differences between Nolde's and Dix's self-portraits illuminate the difference between the moods of pre and post-war Germany. Nolde's is brooding and mystical, with a hint of secrets yet to be revealed. Dix turns the full...
...Artois in northern France was the amount of coal extracted from its numerous mines. Most of the coal has long since disappeared, but Bruay is a name that gets instant recognition throughout France these days. The town is the scene of a bizarre murder case that has aroused bitter class hatred and brought under scrutiny the creaky machinery of French jurisprudence...
...fantastic childhood, to find his place as a writer and as a man whose father happened to be one of the most radical and controversial figures in the history of psychiatry and medicine. More than 15 years after his death, Wilhelm Reich remains the subject of wide interest and bitter debate. Was he a quack, a mad scientist or a prophetic genius? Or was he all three and thus more intensely human than most...
...Cousins, 60, the turn of events seemed like a kind of kismet. He had invested most of his professional life in SR and was bitter about surrendering it to two hot entrepreneurs younger than he (Charney is now 31; Veronis is 45). In exile, Cousins was bearish about the prospects of the Charney-Veronis enterprise. Events seem to have vindicated his acumen. "The reason that I left the Saturday Review" he said last week, "was that its fragmentation into four monthlies was not a sound intellectual concept. How could it then be a good business concept?" If Cousins was elated...