Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...voices of Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky contrasted with the country-lawyer diction of U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. But others achieved a vivid reality, e.g., the flat, unemotional American voices recorded in a command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been no one to listen to-no Roosevelt, no Churchill, not even a Willkie...
...World, on 49th Street east of Times Square, is in its nth consecutive year of showing first-rate Italian movies. Right now its Bitter Rice, concerning feminine violence in the Po valley...
...National Press Club. "Our talks," he read hopefully, "are enabling us to understand each other's point of view." Was there a suspicion that he had come to the U.S. to talk of appeasement? "That word of ill omen . . . That is not true. We know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay." Then he spoke the one emotion-charged passage in his speech: "You may be certain that in fair weather or foul, where the Stars & Stripes fly in Korea, the British flag will fly beside them. We stand by our duty. We stand...
...would adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
...Country is Renoir's bitter-sweet version (filmed in 1936) of a De Maupassant short story about a romantic brief encounter and its melancholy aftermath. The director puts plenty of feeling into his pastoral atmosphere, and his love scenes catch fire. However, the script is poorly constructed, much of the comedy seems forced, and the picture's mooning romanticism finally cloys...