Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berners was educated at the school of the Berne fathers, and went to a church that seemed to him one enormous dispensary. The fathers doled out some pretty bitter medicine, which Berners had tried hard to forget. "I was brought up Fvangelist They deny we can be saved by good works and my son found it out" It takes Berners the whole book the loss of his son, and the discovery of a new world of "uncollected places" to find this...
Uganda celebrated the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain last week. It was hardly an occasion for rejoicing. Under its unpredictable military ruler, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, the country has drifted closer and closer to chaos. It was an especially bitter holiday for Uganda's 10,000 Asian citizens, who have watched helplessly while Amin ordered the expulsion of tens of thousands of other Asians with British or Indian passports. Last week, after Amin "suggested" that they take part in the anniversary parade, the Asians responded with a pathetic gesture of "loyalty" to the regime that...
Anne Roiphe's last novel was Up the Sandbox, a blithe and cunning satire on the fine art of daydreaming, young-housewife division. Her new book is about a drive from Manhattan to Mexico by 35-year-old Emily Brimberg Johnson, a bitter woman in the process of divorcing the painter who walked out on her adoration. Their sullen daughter is a reluctant passenger...
...Federal Government hummed on. So did a bitter controversy about the constitutionality of such wholesale and indiscriminate arrests. Of all those collared, only a handful were ever brought to trial. The American Civil Liberties Union filed three class-action suits seeking damages for false arrests. A score of those imprisoned have filed similar accusations. Last week two received some satisfaction...
...taking votes from everybody. The conservative Democratic Philbin supporters in the western end of the district are still bitter about the 1970 campaign and still can't stand Drinan. They might not be able to bring themselves to vote for a Republican, but they might support me instead...