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There can, admittedly, be a bitterly Schadenfreude quality to some of it, for theirs is a hard life.
An excerpt from Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's America in Black and White cites polls to reject the conventional wisdom that Americans remain bitterly divided over race: "In fact, we are one nation, with blacks and whites much less unequal and, by many measures, much less hostile than in the past."
The Old Left was very important in the civil-rights movement, which now even the far right concedes was a Good Thing, but which at the time it bitterly opposed.
Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') “agenbite (of inwit)” for remorse: till the agenseeing . But of course such bitterly pedantic wordplay would be unthinkable on the lips of the plain-spoken priest whose words give the Malle film its title and some of its poignancy.
It might be, however, that his contempt is too much on the surface, so that his bitterly conclusive outburst to his daughter on a mountaintop in Switzerland feels less than earthshaking.
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