Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the amateur artists had worked into the canvases their feelings (mostly bitter, sometimes awed) about the great strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
Tawdry Strings. Over the years moonfaced Judge Armstrong began to interest himself in other matters besides making money. He set up the Judge Armstrong Foundation and began writing pamphlets. One of them (Zionist Wall Street) was a bitter, loudmouthed attempt to prove that "Zionist Jews caused both world wars...
...Said bitter Correspondent Newman: "The purpose of the new visa system is ... to exclude an accredited correspondent without resorting to the clumsy device of expelling him on trumped-up charges of espionage." Then, in the "fresh air" of Paris, Newman began a 15-installment, uncensored report on life in Russia...
Though Bernard Shaw has called Strindberg "the only genuine Shakespeare modern dramatist," there is no need to go to the Plymouth in either a devotional or dutiful attitude. What you will see is a bitter, provocative, misogynic drama matched with a trenchant performance...