Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting to which he had been expressly disinvited by Prime Minister James Callaghan. Then came stories that his plane was circling Europe in search of a proper landing spot. Finally the truth, he had never left Uganda at all. Amin, apparently, is still in a joking mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed to reach him by telephone. Then Radio Uganda announced that Amin was "very much alive and very fit" and had been enjoying a belated honeymoon with his fifth wife, Sarah, a former paratrooper in the Ugandan army. Nothing was said...
...Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC), but they are described simply, by themselves and by the older blacks of Soweto, as "The Children." They are, in fact, the dominant, virtually unrivaled political power within Soweto. TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter spent two weeks in the township, observing the mood a year later and The Children in action. His report...
...champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto's one hotel now sleeps proudly on a water bed. True, no one can really escape the numbing boredom of being restricted at night to what is little better than a vast labor camp. But there is a new mood of assertiveness in this huge, dispiriting ghetto, and The Children-whose goal goes well beyond such rewards-have started...
...cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood, the age and the dress of the people...
Adeline is no Show Boat, but it was initially well-received; and, despite the effect of the stock-market crash on the public mood a few weeks later, it managed a healthy 234-performance run. It has plenty of fine music and some good lyrics. The main trouble lies in its book, which is silly and amorphous (the same, in sooth, might be said about the plot of many a grand opera...