Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four people in Molly tell some bitter home truths as well. The play takes place in the English countryside in the 1930s. Molly Tredley (Christina Pickles) is a fortyish woman with a frustrated and gnawing need for sex. Her husband Teddy (Michael Higgins), some 20 years her senior, is irascible, quite deaf and has always been impotent. His comforts are booze and the bantering palship of a spinster nurse-companion, Eve (Pauline Flanagan...
There was healthy news on other fronts. Despite the bitter winter weather, the nation's total output of goods and services was revised upward to an annual rate of 6.4% - adjusted for inflation - during the first quarter. The preliminary figure released in April - 5.2% - was some what less rosy because earlier guesstimates about the pace at which businessmen were rebuilding their inventories had been too low. Industrial production remained strong in April, rising by nearly 1%. Although housing starts, at an annual rate of 1.8 million, were down from the March level, they were still an impressive 35% ahead...
...excellent chapter on the life of Margaret Fuller, the American Transcendentalist who challenged the sentimental female stereotype by participating in the activity and danger of Italy's struggle for independence. Douglas also offers a penetrating chapter in which the works of Herman Melville are seen as bitter social criticisms subtly designed to repudiate the values of the reader...
...their futures even if it means not taking a stand on a moral issue we consider important. This reason is probably at least partially correct. But at the same time, it seems clear that Harvard never would have 300 students arrested as Stanford did--the University learned too many bitter lessons in 1969 to do something like that...
...Palace on September 11, 1973 and overthrew the popularly-elected left-wing government, President Salvadore Allende spoke on national radio to the workers and peasants who supported him. "Workers of my country," he said, "I have faith in Chile and her destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seems to dominate. You must never forget that sooner or later grand avenues will be opened where free men will march on to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain...