Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalingrad" is a novel of mood. Instead of a plot, there is only the overpowering atmosphere of snow and gray skies and beaten men--and death. Plievier indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that...
...When I travel I get moody," says Rocky Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...tramp around there day after day," he says, "looking for something to paint. Mood is what I'm after. I go through hell to get a good subject, but once I do I'm happy because it's always something I feel close...
...record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came out, the U.S. was in a mood for "corn belt" music with words like...
Nanking's mood fluctuated sharply with every report from the front. Early in the week hungry, hopeless mobs looted 50 rice shops whose owners refused to accept paper currency. From the police station just opposite one shop, a few white-helmeted guardians of law and order watched without interfering. "What shall we do?" asked one. "The government must not stand in the way of its hungry people...