Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petty theft, book mutilation and other outrages, to be sure, have now come to seem somehow integral to the very notion of "public" in the mind of most library users. But the prevailing mood is still one of gratitude. A few days ago, Sidney Carroll, 66, a television writer and a library addict, leaned back from his notes on the turn-of-the-century Arms Tycoon Basil Zaharoff and reflected aloud: "One of the reasons I live in New York is this library. I love this room. It's hot, but not too much. The types outside the library...
...capital's crisis mood was further fueled by an unexpected development in Havana: Fidel Castro, it was learned, was going to hold a Friday press conference, and he wanted U.S. journalists there. While there was no indication of what the Cuban leader would say, no one in the Administration expected words of conciliation, and Castro did not disappoint them. For 80 min., he met with eight U.S. correspondents, including TIME's Walter Isaacson, in a reception room outside his office...
...tapes available to other journalists. And yet she was on to something. The "peace is at hand" press conference had had an electric effect. Coming on top of a year of successful negotiations, it was for me a moment of unusual pride not leavened by humility. Fallaci caught that mood, even if she took liberties with my pronouncements. She wrote history in the Roman style; she sought psychological, not factual, truth...
...sides are behaving as if there were no insurmountable problems," a senior adviser to Muzorewa said in amazement at the pervasive mood of sweet reason. Even the militant Mugabe confessed that he was "cautiously optimistic" about the possibility of a settlement and graciously took Muzorewa off his personal list of "war criminals." His conciliatory tone was shared by fellow Guerrilla Leader Nkomo, who told TIME'S William McWhirter, "I would like everybody to be given a chance to contribute to a rea-soned-out solution of the problem. It is not the conference that has changed things...
Kissinger saw this, he writes, as a great opportunity; unless it was grasped, the U.S. mood was such that even with an overwhelming mandate, Nixon would quickly be "pushed against the grindstone of congressional pressures" to end the war on almost any terms. In this situation, an unprecedented four-day secret session was convened on Sunday morning, Oct. 8. The critical meeting was held in a house in suburban Gif-sur-Yvette, once owned by the French artist Fernand Léger and still adorned with his Cubist paintings and tapestries. Around noon, after Kissinger had laid out the essentially...