Word: bittersweetness
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...Galbraiths were not as joyless as most of their neighbors, whom Galbraith limns in the bittersweet memoir, The Scotch, but the children were still imbued with their neighbors' stern Calvinist ways. "Sexual intercourse," he wrote, "was, under all circumstances, a sin. Marriage was not a mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world...
DISRAELI GEARS (ATCO Records). This new music group, Cream, serves up a fancy dish of hard rock topped off with choice, albeit bittersweet, lyrics. Drums whip up a froth of steady background rhythms, while the guitars and vocals tread a steady path through the blues of commentary on the human condition...
...CLIMAX. The trials of trigamy, as related by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), with Ugo To-gnazzi in the role of a man lost in the bittersweet labors of love...
...CLIMAX. Ugo Tognazzi gives an exquisitely humane performance as a three-family man (one wife, two mistresses, six children) in a bittersweet comedy produced, written and directed by Italy's Pietro Germi...
They were young. Most were under 20, although there were some mommies and daddies carrying babies around on their shoulders, all inhaling the heavy bittersweet burning smell. People were playing guitars and bells and tambourines and singing. The whole atmosphere was grassed...