Word: bittersweetness
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...have to read Shakespeare to know that the nature of tragedy is ironic--how something sad can be bittersweet, how an act as pragmatically final as death can be a beginning, how the horror of the premature end of someone's life can recall so many wonderful memories...
...have to read Shakespeare to know that the nature of tragedy is ironic--how something sad can be bittersweet, how an act as pragmatically final as death can be a beginning, how the horror of the premature end of someone's life can recall so many wonderful memories...
...Crimson linksters struck a bittersweet chord in their season opener yesterday, losing to Amherst by six strokes but blitzing Tufts by 17 blows on the Hickory Ridge layout in Amherst. The squad was buoyed by Jim Dales' effervescent one-over par 73, which earned him medalist honors...
...could write a chapter a day, Baldwin usually combined the surefire elements of romantic love and great wealth in scores of novels (Office Wife, Private Duty, Manhattan Nights) and countless magazine stories that always stopped at the bedroom door. She seldom wrote about her own life, which took a bittersweet turn when she was reunited with her husband. Gas Company Executive Hugh Cuthrell, in 1953 after 25 years of separation, only to have him die two months later...
These men are all members in good standing of a newly recognized fraternity of victims: the battered husbands. Though jokes about rolling-pin-wielding wives have long been a male staple, researchers are now finding increasingly that such bittersweet humor is all too often a black-and-blue reality. Says University of Delaware Sociologist Suzanne Steinmetz: "The most unreported crime is not wife beating-it's husband beating...