Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threatened rising unemployment. Many economists would welcome this, on the argument that a "normal" pool of unemployed would act as a brake on trade-union demands which have been pushing up production costs and pricing British goods out of export markets. Laborite politicos, however, believed that in the present mood of Britons a "normal" unemployment of 1,000,000 would kill the Labor Party's hopes of winning next year's general elections...
Delegates at Blackpool did not try to play down the danger. Militant Aneurin Bevan was in a somber mood when he addressed a preconference rally. Said Bevan: "Some of our people . . . appear to have achieved material prosperity in excess of their moral stature. Some of them have got what they have got too easily and they are in danger of throwing away by a few months of dissipating anarchy what we have spent our lifetime in building...
Maugham called it "magnificent," and added, "there is no doubt that Graham has painted me in a mood and with an expression I sometimes have, even without being aware...
...does it represent a malignant spirit which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black cat is only literary device for effectively creating a ghostly mood to overhang the Bridges family's internal strife. I don't think that ws the original idea, but by leaving his purpose open to such speculation. Clark's otherwise sharp psychological study is dulled...
Potent Unitarian Bradford, however, was in no mood for such tiptoe tactics. "We must have a central Christian pur pose,", he warned. ";A faith which believes in everything believes in nothing. If Unitarianism is.to be merely a secular debating society, let's take the word 'faith' out of it. I cannot worship the mind...