Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinguishing marks of the true Gael" emerge more slowly out of the humour of the story. He is identified by the various oppressions inflicted on him by the English, the Dublin Irish, and fate, listed in order of decreasing responsibility and increasing blame. Myles' satire is funniest and most bitter here; on O'Coonassa's first day of school the master beats a new name into him: "Jams O'Donnell." When he gets home his mother explains that such is fate: "It was always seen and written that every Gaelic youngster is hit on his first day of school because...
Under the hot Arizona sun, the two bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin...
Though Steiger promised to raise the tone of the forthcoming election campaign by focusing on issues and not on personalities, he was still bitter about the primary fight. Said he: "You can live a full, rich life and never run against John Conlan." Conlan was making no move to heal the party's wounds either, which was good news to the obvious beneficiary of all the G.O.P. discord: Dennis DeConcini, 39, of Tucson, a former county district attorney, who handily won the three-way Democratic primary. If the split among Arizona Republicans continues, he will have a good chance...
Family-owned businesses can be showcases of executive harmony-or the arena for bitter feuds made all the more painful by the fact that the disputants are of the same blood. For the past 30 years one of the most spectacular such feuds has pitted Robert Mondavi, now 64, against his brother Peter, 63, over the operation of the Charles Krug Winery, the oldest in California's Napa Valley. Their struggle came to a climax this year in a court battle interrupted by their mother's death. Now it is nearing a surprising conclusion: a California judge...
...Cabinet for himself. On the foreign front he is likely to echo Giscard's cordial internationalism, particularly toward the U.S. and the Common Market, in contrast to Chirac's brand of Gaullist nationalism. To soothe the Gaullists somewhat, Barre named Olivier Guichard-a Gaullist party baron and bitter Chirac rival-as Justice Minister. As to how the new Giscard-Barre team will get their measures past the National Assembly, the President thinks he has a solution: the Gaullists have no choice but to back him. So far, the party's reaction has been encouraging. But the fact...