Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 1,000 letters a week urging stronger support for Israel have poured into the White House. Important Senators have chimed in on the same theme. Two weeks ago, when he got a phone call from White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Rabbi Schindler began to discern a change in mood. Says he: "Then I knew that the question of American-Israeli relations had become a serious political matter, and they weren't treating us as if we were part of a foreign relations department. Carter was beginning to perceive the importance of wooing the American Jewish community...
California's current mood does not greatly surprise its demographers. Having skewed its population by welcoming successive waves of youth, it is now suffering the "baby-boom doldrums" of a generation confronting its inevitable mortality. Sociologists view the despair as something that logically follows a period of growth, the end of heady promise. But they worry about the effects of a prolonged malaise. Observes University of California Sociologist Neil Smelser: "There is abundant evidence that California is presently in a state of psychological depression because of the hollow notion that things are running out. Californians believe the best...
Earnings Heartache. In an angry mood, Judge Leff said, "The real danger is the cynicism that is engendered when, at the level at which this kind of fraud takes place, the general public believes that ultimately there isn't any effective sanction which will punish or which will be feared by these corporate thieves." Nonetheless, the appellate court agreed to give Dolkart yet another stay, pending an appeal of his sentence...
...aerospace plants across the country, the mood was no less sulfurous. "A great surprise and deep shock," said Bastian ("Buz") Hello, B-1 division manager of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the program. The champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots...
Sire Records' Seymour Stein, an early champion of punk, finds that the music reflects a mood of total indifference among the young. "They feel they had nothing to do with making the world the mess it is today, and they're also not going to do anything to make it any better-because they can't. They come to the music for the sake of the music, for entertainment, for getting...