Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition that the partners must be somehow punished for ending a marriage. Hence the squalid court fights, private detectives with strobe guns, ruinously expensive lawyers' fees and the weeks at Reno dude ranches. A quarter of American marriages end in divorce, and most of the divorces are doubly bitter because of the judicial process that formally pits the parting husband and wife against each other...
...America's greatness is measured. These ersatz pillars of society apparently find no difficulty in preaching national standards of morality and condemning the younger generation for its cynicism while they themselves are cheating some little old lady out of a few dollars in the marketplace. It is a bitter joke on all of us that big business has in its grasp the power to make America great and to kick her in the behind at the same time...
Though the Indians' offer is ironic, their purpose is serious. The takeover of Alcatraz reflects a new militance among Indians, who seek to dramatize the injustices they have endured at the hands of white America, particularly from the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs. In a bitter parody of frequently broken U.S. treaties with defeated Indian tribes, the invaders of Alcatraz made their proposal for the few white caretakers still living there: "We will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in trust by the American...