Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eckstein sees a darker side: "There is no question that the economy is now going to turn down quite sharply. We are forecasting that unemployment, now 5.8%, will hit 8% by the second half of next year." Still, Eckstein thinks that the recession will be a bit less bitter than in 1973-75. "The use of credit by business has been considerably more cautious, inventories are not anywhere near as high as they were in 1974, capital spending has not been that excessive, housing activity has not been excessive, so the [current] exposure of the private economy...
...middle of the night. Raging, he taunts her for her pride in Lionel, reminding her that anonymous black men are killed every day, and they are no less heroic than her father. She counters brutally until they fall tidily into the roles apartheid has prescribed for them--bitter black, guilty white...
Bova conveys his message entertainingly. His writing is competent, if not spectacular, and while the "futuristic technology" involved--killer satellites (gasp!) and moon bases--is old hat to science fiction fans, the interplay between science and politics and the bitter metamorphosis of Chester Arthur Kinsman should keep readers interested...
Until Watergate. Helms is bitter now. He comes across as too much a true believer in CIA ethics to write his memoirs and spill the many secrets that no doubt still remain hidden in that spacious closet. But he wants the record set straight--or at least set it his way--on the CIA's involvement in Watergate. Helms says Nixon fired him in 1973 and banished him to Iran (as ambassador) because the President was furious when Helms refused to enlist the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. The CIA was not directly behind the break-in (though some...
...Here he embarks on an intellectual journey to discover both the mystery behind Lonoff's ghost-like absence from the "real world" and the secret to Lonoff's uncanny ability to characterize the Jewish anti-hero in his stories. Along the way, Nathan encounters Hope, Lonoff's lonely, bitter and jealous wife, and the enchanting Amy Bellette, his precocious and loving student...