Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Harry Truman jettisoned his Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace, in 1946, had there been such a publicly bitter parting in a presidential family. Back at Interior, Hickel summoned reporters and announced tensely: "The President personally terminated me about two hours ago." His unapologetic explanation for his career at Interior: "Trying to do a job for the President and for all Americans, and still survive as an individual. I had to do it my way." Nixon left it to Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to report his reasons: "The President feels that the required elements for a good and continued relationship...
...room for the premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter and a rum-and-Coke. Wasn't he nervous? "She's like any other bird, really," he gulped. When Anne turned up, though, and proffered her hand, Sam kissed it -strictly not done with royalty, and certainly not the customary greeting for birds in the East...
...Dandin is an early farce, today often left to the schoolroom, about a rich peasant who has married above himself, is cuckolded by his wife and humiliated by her pretentious petty-noble parents. In the bones of every 17th century comedy of manners, sophisticated or crude, there aches a bitter social criticism. Director Jean-Paul Roussillon has made farce into a quicklime laughter that burns to those bones. It is the paradox of modern directing to play a villain for his sympathetic qualities (as Stanislavsky counseled his actors); to play tragedy with a light touch; above all to play comedy...
Obviously there is a Nietzschean streak in Cioran. A chapter called "Skeptic & Barbarian" dubs the skeptic -himself, of course-"that living dead man." With bitter sentimentality he half praises the barbarian, the man in touch with his instincts and out of touch with cursed self-awareness. "He who has never envied the vegetable," he writes, "has missed the human drama...
...this kind of intellectualism can be brought back to a Harvard significantly changed from the one Kaysen left in 1966 brings out all of the bitter polarizations in the faculty. As would be the case with Bundy, many of the young liberals and students think choosing Kaysen would be a deliberate reach back for the good old days with Mac. Conservatives appear delighted at the idea...