Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There is a loss here that a lot of black people aren't aware of," Jones said. "Whitney Young had become a kind of bridge between that part...
...vote climaxed a bitter debate between the Administration and Senator William Proxmire (D-Wise.). Proxmire charged Wednesday night that the SST will increase the incidence of skin cancer by thinning the protective shield of ozone in the stratosphere. In response, the Administration accused Proxmire of trying to create fear among congressmen over the SST's threat to the environment...
...effects on your judgment)? Yes, this: that anti-communism is alive and kicking. It is remarkable how, often the allies of McCarthy (Gene) end up sounding like McCarthy (Joe): and there is Landau talking about a "vibrant," "free-wheeling" organization infiltrated and "taken over" by a "crude," "intolerant," "bitter" communist party...
Ground fighting in Cambodia and South Vietnam continued to be light yesterday. Skirmishing was infrequent, with the most bitter action restricted to the Mekong Delta...
Finally, Headplay is about failure. It is about ideals and innocence being exchanged for apathy or death. When the lights go down on the last tableau there is a bitter feeling of completion, of having come full circle . . . the ultimate defloration of the Love Generation...