Word: bittersweetness
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...often the case, a momentous discovery had been made by accident. Last week, 14 years after his bittersweet experiment, Dr. Selye returned to Montreal after a triumphal tour of the medical capitals of Europe and the Americas. He had given countless lectures on his theory of stress and collected a hatful of medals and awards. Still young (43) and eager, he plunged back into the studies of stress and hormones which he expects will keep him busy the rest of his life...
High on the Horse. For Jockey Arcaro, who could have ridden Middleground in the Derby, Hill Prince's victory was bittersweet. "It was a crime he didn't win the Derby," Arcaro said...
...only a heap of broken images, but which, to a longer view, blends them into a single bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with...
Clear Memories. A high-domed, soft-spoken moose of a man, Hopper comes by such subjects hard; he never paints them unless they move him, averages less than three oils a year. The qualities that seem to move him most are loneliness and a bittersweet mixture of beauty with man-made ugliness...
...years of well-heeled marriage, unhappy Susan Hayward has taken to the bottle and guzzled her way to a crisis. Her husband (Kent Smith) demands a divorce and custody of their little girl. Will Susan tell him that the child is not his? The picture flashes back to a bittersweet wartime romance between Susan, a nice girl from Boise, and an amiable Greenwich Village wolf (Dana Andrews). While she keeps her pregnancy a secret, unwilling to snare Andrews into marriage, he scribbles a voluntary proposal, then dies in an Army training accident. She recovers from the shock in plenty...