Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night, as if in bitter mockery of the day's festivities, racial peace was shattered in Drew. One of the graduating seniors, a comely 18-year-old black girl named Jo-Etha Collier, was walking down a street crowded with other youngsters celebrating the end of the school year. A green Ford passed by, then people on the street heard the report of a gun, and Jo-Etha slumped to the ground. She had been shot below the ear and was bleeding heavily; she died before reaching the hospital...
...wrote an article for the CRIMSON, a short funny thing about the last year here, which was kind of bitterly ironic. I was going to send it over, but I never did," Pollack said. "It started out being a serious goodbye letter. Then I decided to make it funny. But it got to be pretty bitter humor in places, and when I read it through three or four times, I decided it wasn't humorous...
...irony especially bitter to anti-SST forces was the source of the $85 million: it was money originally intended to compensate Boeing and General Electric, the two main contractors, for the cancellation. But two weeks ago, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends went to the White House to report that a vote on the canceling appropriation might be deftly turned to revive the plane. "It would be a great thing to get this done," President Nixon told them. The President set his congressional liaison office to work on the project, but the real persuasion was accomplished...
...obligatory Love Story put-down, complete with stale jokes, and the author's defensive bid for us to accept him as a hip sophisticate. ( His stories, he quickly points out, are Humphrey Bogart and Dennis Hopper... whoopee-do!). There's a biography of Nathan Pusey, which explains the "bitter man" as an evangelical rationalist; it is followed by a rogue's gallery of Pusey's administrators that includes some very outdated photographs and uncritical thumbnail biographies (MacGeorge Bundy's "academic speciality was American foreign policy," we are told...
Zindel won the Pulitzer for his off-Broadway play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, wh:ch exemplifies perfectly the editor's admonition to young writers: "Write what you know." The play's three leading characters are a bitter, nearly mad mother and her two tormented daughters; its plot concerns a science-class experiment with radiation on marigolds by one of the daughters. The underlying concept occurred to Zindel while he was preparing a class lecture. "I remember thinking that all carbon atoms on earth had to come from the sun," he says...