Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Class of 1976, but took a year off and won't graduate until June 1977. When graduation rolled around I expected a brief bout with nostalgia, especially on Commencement Day when my senior roommates marched through the Yard in their caps and gowns. But oddly enough the mood of the Commencement Week was alienating; it seemed like freshman week all over again, the best-forgotten days when we were all impressed with Harvard and took it seriously, when we felt like human beings of a higher order because here we were, mere freshmen, listening to Pat Moynihan...
...level were instructed to look out for pink newsmen descending. Few, even reporters with friends among the patronage-holders, could maneuver past the perimeter wall. While waiting you could drum up some interesting slice-of-life stories by roaming the balconies. But after a while the value of those "mood of Democratic America as seen through the loge section of Madison Square Garden" pieces starts to wane. Of course, there is some truth to the argument that policy-making is conducted strictly in the dingy rooms in the adjacent Statler. But the policy makers have never been known...
...Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly sold out, but there are last-minute cancellations anyway...
Despite Carrillo's and Berlinguer's eloquent espousals of "Eurocommunism," the star and clear winner at the Berlin summit was the wily Tito. His policy of nonalignment, pursued for three decades, seemed finally to have been appreciated by Europe's Communists. In a solemn mood of self-congratulation, he commended other parties for affirming Yugoslavia's "principles of independence, equality, autonomy and noninterference." As the conference ended, many observers and participants agreed that this might well be the last attempt at Communist summitry. Predicted a Yugoslav party stalwart: "The conference had no past-and no future...
Fortunately, the Puerto Rico summit served less narrow purposes as well. The atmosphere was almost totally different from the first economic summit last November, when the leaders spent a weekend at the Cháteau de Rambouillet near Paris as the guests of Giscard. Then the mood was anxious concern about the worldwide recession. This time, as the leaders talked for eight hours at the Dorado Beach Hotel, overlooking a palm-lined shore, the mood was optimistic. The only real worry was that the world recovery might be proceeding too quickly...