Word: bittersweet
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Even when the U.N. approved the convention in 1948 it was a bittersweet victory for Lemkin, according to Power. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the convention, and Lemkin died a year later...
...women of the senior class--the first time men have been invited to the event. The tea, the time when the Fay Prize had traditionally been awarded, and its setting, among the buildings that until October had been dedicated to the education of undergraduate women, together mark a transition, bittersweet but full of opportunity. There is a place for men at the Tea--as well as in the campus women's organizations and on the Ann Radcliffe Trust--and perhaps receiving a Fay Prize, if the Frothingham and the other similar prizes become available to women as well...
...appropriate, somewhat bittersweet end for a store that has quietly served a loyal core of Square patrons for nearly a century...
...will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...
...awkward moments while walking into Lamont Library have always been a bittersweet emotional ballet, full of both anticipation and dread. The clumsy balancing of bookbag and laptop case, the fumbling for ID and the uncomfortable eye contact with the book checker are rites of passage, destined to be replayed throughout the ages. In recent times, however, those already "broken in" may have found a new social obstacle: the umbrella...