Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultures. They flocked to opera and the ballet, and liked to reminisce about the time Robert Casadesus gave a concert in Riga, or Boris Chaliapin sang at the National Opera. Now, there are only a handful of theaters left, most of them Russian, and the people are in no mood to attend them. Related a refugee: "On June 13, 1946, I was in Vilna† and saw, with my own eyes, 3,000 men being transported from the central prison camp to the central station. They were to be shipped to Siberia. After seeing faces like theirs...
After a long, tiring final day rounding out his information, Sid Copeland expressed Seattle's temper and his own in the lead sentence of his report. Wrote he: "Normalcy is a good word to describe the mood hereabouts this spring because everyone's beefing again...
...first reading, last issue's lead story in TIME'S National Affairs department on the mood & temper of the U.S. at this season appears to be the product of one, man's judgment...
...picture, Apley is not quite what it might have been: a shrewd comedy of character and of the effect upon character of a highly special place and atmosphere. The film sketches rather than explores the character and fails to do what movies can do so well: convey a special mood...
...last week's revival did not inspire much of a whistling mood. Operettas have librettos, of course; and librettos are born old. And The Chocolate Soldier's, despite its descent - and mighty steep it is - from Shaw's Arms and the Man, is far from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what...