Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning, the U.S. had thought that the commission's visit would lead to the freeing, or at least the moving, of the hostages. On arrival in Tehran, the commissioners discovered that the militants were locked in a bitter power struggle with President Banisadr and Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. For ten days the militants did everything they could to prevent the commission members from seeing the hostages; they argued that the visit had not been approved by the ailing spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. But then, as the commissioners prepared to leave for New York...
...embassy compound, the militants seemed bitter and uncommunicative, especially as to why they had suddenly reversed themselves. Presumably they were waiting for Khomeini to endorse their actions, as he had done in the past. On Friday they demanded the right to address the Iranian people on radio and television, a privilege they enjoyed in the early days of the embassy siege. They also declared that, whatever happens to the hostages, the embassy compound had become their "home," and they would not leave it-nor would they surrender the embassy files...
Almost completely out of keeping with the conciliatory public mood was the bitter reaction of Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, who won only three seats despite an active and well-financed campaign. (Candidates of the other six black parties were shut out completely.) Favored by the whites because of his moderate politics, the Methodist prelate had become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister last June after he won 51 of the 72 black seats in "internal" elections boycotted by the guerrillas. Last week's vote, he declared in an emotional press conference, had been "absolutely unfree and unfair" because...
...willing and able to make changes in his script. But his innocence showed up in other ways, and he was sometimes shocked at both the egos and the greed of many people in the business. "If you go in thinking everyone is trying to help you, you wind up bitter," he observed at the time. "Everyone is just in it for himself." Talking about one of his colleagues who he thought took advantage of him, he said: "It was like that scene at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The hero is talking to his best friend...
...used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters on us and gone away." Morgan's dislike of change hardly jibes with his own shifting behavior, but it suggests that he may be as brave as he is silly. Morgan's Passing is not another novel about a mid-life...