Word: bitters
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That position qualifies as moral arrogance and contempt for democracy. When combined with a vigorous interpretation of the American role on the world scene, it has produced a bitter domestic political atmosphere and a depraved Asian policy that the country cannot abandon. But Kennan combined it with a limited role for America. His comments on popular American culture imply no particular enthusiasm for it. And his discussion of Midwestern provincialism show little respect for the natives' capacity to manage their foreign affairs. He calls the region "a great slatternly mother, sterile when left to herself, yet immensely fruitful and creative...
...will not arrest the bitter debate in the U.S. over whether that end might have come much sooner. The note was struck to cheers from a student audience in Iowa last week by George McGovern when he asked: "Why, Mr. Nixon, did you take another four years to put an end to this tragic war?" For McGovern and many Americans, the Thieu regime was so corrupt, the war so immoral, the cost in lives and national spirit so debilitating, that instant U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam had long since been justified. Nixon, of course, rejected unilateral withdrawal...
...often enraging purposelessness. At its very worst, that frustration produced My Lai and other less celebrated atrocities. The fraternity of Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long ago, television audiences watched a legless vet in a bar near Washington's Walter Reed Hospital blearily drinking beer from his prosthetic calf...
While Buchwald mocks with broad burlesque, Baker approaches Campaign '72 in a whimsical fashion that is more serious and sometimes bitter. He describes his joy at being visited by a pollster, only to find that the survey concerns 1980; the present contest was settled in a sampling taken last July, and the 1976 election was decided only the previous week ("You'll be amazed," says the pollster, "how that one came out"). In another column, the average American voter is angry at being accosted by a candidate in a parking lot. "When my worst instincts are appealed...
...father (Hal Holbrook) invites his 14-year-old son (Scott Jacoby) to visit him at his home near San Francisco-and to meet his lover (Martin Sheen). The father does not explain their relationship, however, and when the boy discovers that his father is a homosexual, he runs away. Bitter, he returns to his mother (Hope Lange...