Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acres of new, awe-inspiring machinery, President Grant pulled a lever to release the first jet of steam and tens of thousands of Americans oohed and aahed: wool was combed, water was pumped, newspapers were printed, cloth was sewn, shoes were stitched together. More in keeping with the public mood, Author William Dean Howells exulted: "It is in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks...
Henry Adams' obsession with the dynamo remains an essential element of the American spirit. Yet in their inward-looking mood, Americans in 1976 are urgently trying to recover things that were taken for granted...
...Ilyushin jet. Out of view but scarcely out of mind was the huge jumble of rails ripped from the tracks near Warsaw late last month by rioting Polish workers. Indeed the mass strikes protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood of the Communist summit. Meeting in the modern, wood-paneled conference room of the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the chiefs of Western Europe's Communist parties rose one after the other to manifest their independence from the Kremlin's 50-year-long hegemony...
Mostly, Brezhnev developed the timeworn theme of the struggle between the Soviet "peace forces" and the "aggressive forces of imperialism," thus diverting attention from conflicts among Communists. Still, the mood of the conferees obliged the Soviet leader to ac knowledge the right of all parties to "suit their tactics and strategy to specific situations in their respective countries." The Italians were jubilant. Sergio Segre, the chief of the Italian party's foreign department, said that Brezhnev's remarks meant that "Communism has stopped being a closed system...
...exhibition is littered with homefried parodies of an earlier sublimity, it is because many of the artists could find only a conventional way of producing an "official" heroic landscape. Despite Art Historian Robert Rosenblum's benevolent claim in the catalogue that "in most of these works, the mood is one of exhilarating adventure and head-clearing oxygenation," the paint surface tends to go dead at the timber line: the mountain pictures, like Lowell