Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really didn't have to, since the growth of the story is away from the comic mode toward something more rueful, and more interesting, in mood. Bogdanovich ends his film with the 1915 premiere of The Birth of a Nation, the first major American feature-length film, a work of unprecedented scope, cost and profitability. Its success over night made the movies into a serious business. To remain competitive there after required a considerable investment of time and money...
Status Pole. In this mood, Wolfe can delight and instruct. But he omits the possibility that people can dress or act for reasons that have nothing to do with climbing or sliding down the status pole. Altruism, love and compassion seem excluded by his highly stylized determinism. Those who dismiss Wolfe do so at just this point. If he were sent to cover the Crimean War, would he not send back a dispatch describing Florence Nightingale's uniform...
...Wolfe would have railed at the booboisie. As it happened, he arrived on the scene when progressives and liberals had seized the reins of established opinion−and when undreamed-of zaniness was abroad in the land. Stuffiness, traditions of all stripes were panting on the ropes; the mood was full throttle into a brave new world...
Jimmy Carter was in a talking mood. Sitting in the wood-paneled den of his house in Plains, wearing a long, yellow, velour sweater and white sneakers, Carter had his feet crossed on top of his desk. Beside him, balancing thick black notebooks full of Cabinet profiles on his lap, was his young aide, Hamilton Jordan, in a sports shirt and safari jacket, looking just as casual as his boss. Jordan slid his red canvas chair next to Carter and handed over one of the books, reading along with him so closely that his head was almost touching Carter...
...mood of holiday cheer...