Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Eisenhower, also worried that the President might attempt suicide. Seeking outside help, Cox telephoned Michigan Senator Robert Griffin. He reported that Nixon had been "walking the halls" of the White House late at night, "talking to pictures of former Presidents." The President, warned Cox, might be in a mood to kill himself. David also told friends that he thought the President might "go bananas" and seemed convinced that he "would never leave the White House alive...
Through most of a 3-hr. 15-min. stem-winder to Egypt's People's Assembly last week, President Anwar Sadat was in an amiable mood. But in the final five minutes he turned sternly serious, and then he dropped his bombshell. "The Soviet Union," he declared, "is trying to bring us to our knees. But I will get on my knees before no one but Allah." Amid ringing cheers, Sadat then demanded that the parliament unilaterally abrogate Egypt's treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union because Moscow is no longer providing the military...
Such a symbolic rite generates ritual objects, dedicated to the potential event. Wedding is a collection of such talismen. These photos were intended as documentation of an important moment, but, more significantly, they were created to evoke a mood, inspire some faith. Like votive offerings at a shrine, they do not merely record a commitment, they reaffirm and even manufacture that commitment. Pictures of a marriage are magic, or at least those involved want them...
...greatest asset, on the other hand, and the factor that singularly influences the President's high standing, is the continuing increase in the nation's optimism. The national mood and confidence in the future are still moving upward. The social-resentment indicator, which measures the alienation and anger of the public because values are changing too fast, is moving sharply down. And for the first time in more than two years, one out of two people now feels that things are going well in the country...
...Park regime is in no mood to tolerate any opposition, no matter how it is expressed. Decree No. 9 also forbids newspapers from publishing anything about dissent, other than the government's official statements. Thus very few Koreans knew about the cathedral meeting or the arrests until the government made its own announcements ten days later...