Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first it seems that Wiseman has made this film only to poke obvious fun at colonialism: he includes some all too pointed shots of the downtrodden Panamanians who perform the Americans' menial labor. By the time Canal Zone reaches its Memorial Day climax, however, it becomes as bitter as Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
After finishing 16 strokes behind first-place Dartmouth, the disheartened coach Bob Donovan said, "It's really a disgraceful performance. Maybe we were a little over-confident, and maybe I'm to blame, because I thought we were a shooin. It's going to be a very long and bitter winter after today...
...continued to pour in from around the globe. On June 12, 1956, he was called up before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and badgered about his ties to the Communist Party. America gave Robeson little peace in his last decade, and he had every right to turn bitter and resentful. But it is not clear how angry he really did become, for his autobiography is still infused with eager optimism, with an idealism that retains more than a touch of the innocence of his youth. He ends the book with an eloquent expression of the dream he still...
...always pointed to as a paradigm of how it would work within a pluralistic society. Stung by the protests, Bologna party leaders suspected Italy's secret service, the CIA or other foreign intelligence outfits of manipulating extremists in order to discredit the Communists. Party leaders are especially bitter about a Parisian manifesto signed by 26 leftist intellectuals, including Writer Jean-Paul Sartre, accusing the Italian party of brutally putting down the students in Bologna...
...last week's demonstrations in Bologna. "Let these youths carry their insults against our party," declared Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer. "Bologna will surely not be disrupted by their lies." Berlinguer accused them of regarding "the Communist Party as the enemy to be defeated." In a bitter reference to the French intellectuals' manifesto, he noted that "the right wing often disguises itself as leftist, and cultural idiots at home and abroad fall right into the trap...