Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood of the nation had changed. When the House passed its drastic labor bill three weeks ago, the nation still feared another wrenching series of strikes in the 1946 pattern. But now the prospects for industrial peace were better than at any time since the war. The Senate, facing its own labor bill last week, considered the outlook...
...week, Congress spent on labor, taxes and economy. With a wary but determined air, the Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the House's tax-reduction bill. Almost immediately, members were faced with the cold stare of Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Secretary Snyder was in an "adamant" mood. He stiffly reasserted the Administration's stand against tax cuts, refused to let Republican committeemen persuade him that big cuts are needed now to bolster public purchasing power, and left the anxious committee to guess whether Harry Truman would veto the final version of the tax bill...
...fact that the planes only come in when they're in trouble and the suggestion that the boy hasn't the ghost of a chance of going to America have divine implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur E. Cooper, is a light narrative that certainly has no implications. Its tone, though a trifle forced, is sustained right through this delightful little piece of writing. "The Javelin-Thrower," by H. Lawrence Osgood, is below the standards of the rest of the magazine. Its "meaning" is abstruse...
...moonlight chilliness of his mood, his refusal to soften the deepening ambiguities of truth (as he saw it), the pitiless obsession of his God-seeking, and the scary symbolism in which he embodied his God-seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite staying power will find that in the scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions...
Religious Humorist. The mood in which Kafka energizes his perception of the incompatibility of God and man is unequivocal, masculine and as glitteringly clear as winter air. He is the least sentimental or feminine of modern writers. But truth and derangement are galley-mates, since the horror that tugs at the same oar is the perception that man and his fate by human standards are monstrous. Kafka retains his sanity by his realization that man's fate is also divine comedy. This is the hinge of his unearthly irony...