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DuBois raised $125,000 for such an encyclopedia, but the idea was ultimately cancelled when he was labeled too radical. Bitter at this and other failed enterprises, DuBois emigrated to Ghana at the end of his life...
...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...
...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...
Despite the tortuous turns in her career, Hadid says she's not bitter. At 48, she's still young for an architect. And she doesn't believe in glass ceilings. Unless, of course, she's thinking of designing...
Orwell holds the world record for scaring us away from a future that seemed perfectly plausible. People like to claim that Orwell "got it wrong," as if it were Orwell's fault that we don't dwell in some ghastly dystopia. His 1984 (published in 1949) is the bitter work of a dying man. Granted, political correctness and language theory haven't become Newspeak just yet. But Orwell's portrait of a debased Britain, singing machine-made pop songs and obsessed with vast public lotteries, has a certain uneasy resonance even...