Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiring and firing various attorneys, Ray fought in vain for a trial, claiming that Foreman had pressured him into confessing. Foreman concedes that he advised Ray that both the evidence and the outraged mood of the country were so strong against him that he probably would be sentenced to death if he insisted on a trial at first, instead of admitting his guilt. Last year Ray's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea and gain a trial was rejected by both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time...
...professionalism is a badly mangled term. It's the kind of label that magazines and newspapers love to slap on students to describe the so-called "new mood on campus." But rarely does their reporting venture further than generalizations that lump all students together under on pre-professional umbrella. Pre-professionalism therefore has its share of continually perpetuated myths and untruths...
Following a national trend, applications to Harvard's professional schools declined or leveled off this year, after rising steadily for the last three years. The "new mood" theorists aren't going to like this, kids...
...mood on campus and all that, but Henry A. Kissinger '50, former Harvard professor of Government, can still bring out the protesters. His October appearance on campus during his final days as Secretary of State prompted a 500-person demonstration, one of the largest on campus in recent years...
Likewise, the extraordinary 17th century outer robe covered with woven brocade designs of autumnal grasses is intended (so the catalogue notes inform us) to convey the "melancholy, somewhat desolate mood" of "a lonely field at dusk." If this is melancholy, the mood was never more lyrically conveyed. The robe is an anthology of natural observation, with seven types of plants rendered in a marvelously clear, springy line, through gradations of color that result from the separate tinting, part by part, of each of the thousands of silk threads. Where the brown, gray and blue rectangles of the background meet...