Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bundy's deep involvement in the Vietnam strategy through the bitter end days of Lyndon Johnson is likely to rankle more anti-war Faculty members than students. The average freshman was 14 when Bundy bailed out of the Johnson Administration in 1966, and never got a good chance to get up a hate...
...coordinated case of Agnew hitting the low road and Nixon saying some of the same things, but on a higher plane of rhetoric. Thus Agnew accused the Democratic Congress of "featherbedding" and "monumental goldbricking" in holding up Administration bills. He charged that it was controlled by "big spenders" and "bitter men" who have "forfeited their mandate" to represent the workingman. Nixon issued a 20-page "call for cooperation" from the Congress, gently chiding the Hill for its failure to act on his programs. The watchword of his Administration, he insisted, was still "reform." "In a mood of nostalgia and partisanship...
...rural roads of Georgia, where he came upon an angry confrontation in the town of Sparta. In the Faulknerian courthouse, gun-toting black parents waited impatiently while the school board debated whether or not to open the schools on time. Eventually, the board decided to delay-and the blacks, bitter though they were, decided not to resort to gunplay. What they did do was unburden to Range the extent of their frustration-and hope...
...author explored the nature of human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious men of letters but also of a voice of moral assurance in an era of bitter doubt. "Mauriac," said Novelist Julien Green in a eulogy, was the latest in a line of Christian writers who have "put a great literary style quite naturally at the service of a great faith...
Hcmd-to-Hcmd Combat. Like America's Negro spirituals, many of Russia's ballads draw their inspiration from the experience of slavery. In the fearful days of Stalin, the bitter, poignant songs of prisoners, which wafted beyond the gates of the slave labor camps, were known and hummed by millions of Soviet citizens. Although the Stalinist terror has since subsided, the memories endure. In magnitizdat, Russians sing of their struggle to maintain integrity in a society that all too often has brutalized its citizens. The stanza of one famous song begins: "Our own war is a hand...