Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple that might be the victims (or the perpretrators) of who knows what hideous crime of romantic vengence. This Francis Ford Coppolla movie--one for which he had trouble finding funding or distributors--works hauntingly on at least three levels. Metaphorically, it serves to highlight the pathologically paranoid mood of the last years of the Nixon administration and the Watergate cover-up. Intellectually, it goes deeper than this; Hackman painstakingly and convincingly becomes a man who just can't handle the perversity and technocartic inhumanity of his occupation, and who begins to fathom the horror of people like him turning...
Europe's workers this winter are in their angriest, most aggressive mood since the contentious 1930s. After three postwar decades during which they became cozily accustomed to rising wages and proliferating fringe benefits, the unions are now being asked to tighten their belts to hold down inflation. All over Western Europe, workers are striking, protesting and grabbing authority away from management...
Social Contract. But nowhere is the mood so bitter, or the consequences of labor's unrest so ominous, as in Britain. Two years ago, the ruling Labor Party persuaded British trades unions and industry to join a massive campaign to combat runaway inflation (then 26%) and restore the confidence of Britain's foreign creditors. The result was a drastic tightening of the so-called social contract, which held wage increases for all British workers to a flat $10 per week in the first year's Phase 1 and to $7 in Phase 2. The voluntary wage controls...
...Mood On Campus...
...done wonders for my mood" Greg Kirsch '80 said yesterday. "I plan to be charging around all afternoon", he added...