Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delhi Correspondent Lawrence Malkin had another sort of assignment: to determine the mood of the Indian people as they prepared to vote in their national election on March 20. Traveling the subcontinent as a newcomer to the region, Malkin found "the cumulative effect of an aroused citizenry one of the most moving experiences of my life." At the end of his first two months, he sent a cable to our editors in New York saying that Prime Minister Gandhi might lose. With India again free from repression, Malkin looks forward to his new assignment with enthusiasm: "Watching another country, especially...
...Carter has improved since then. As he begins making hard decisions on energy policy, welfare reform and taxes, this glorious glow about Carter's performance will doubtless pale. For the moment, however, he has brought a substantial lift to the morale of Americans. TIME's national mood indicator, based on a series of questions that measure people's confidence in the U.S., has risen to 47%, up seven percentage points since the election and a heady 2½ times the level of three years...
...mood in the hall was sullen. After the initial round of speeches, the delegates could agree only on overall aims. No amount of brave words could hide the fact that the lofty goals of the Treaty of Rome seem more distant today than a decade...
...mysteries, however, is how Mrs. Gandhi, the compleat politician, so misjudged the national mood when she called the elections. She is known to have been worried last fall about the sterilization backlash and other bureaucratic tyrannies in North India. But in November Sanjay made a whirlwind tour of Uttar Pradesh and was greeted by the usual crowds-supplied, of course, by the local authorities. Similarly, when Sanjay and his elder brother Rajiv visited a community of resettled slumdwellers, they were given a tumultuous welcome-as ordered by party officials. Mrs. Gandhi, deprived of a free press and served...
When Schlesinger took over as Secretary of Defense in 1973, he worked overtime at becoming an absolute terror. At 6:15 in the morning he would blaze into his office in such a foul mood that his staff was afraid to speak to him. "He could melt the stars off the shoulders of a four-star general," recalls one former aide. There was an angle in his anger. Schlesinger wanted to dominate the entrenched bureaucracy of the Pentagon, which has defied the mastery of all but two or three of the eleven other Secretaries. He managed to start rebuilding...