Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminds me of my experience at Harvard; although I don't have any sympathy for what the Confederate survivors were glorifying, I have a Lost Cause of my own, and I think I know how their sons must have felt. I haven't been particularly enthusiastic about the mood of reconciliation that has prevailed in the time I have been in college, and I have been told many times that a few years ago, before I was here, students were fighting for a cause that was noble and just. The idea is a wonderful focus for the discontents of college...
...turned out last week, Ford and the Republicans had a great deal of trouble. Not only was the President's veto overridden by a substantial margin-310 to 113-but 49 of the 144 Republican Congressmen voted with the Democrats. The startling defeat for Ford set the mood and the stage for what promises to be a congressional session full of tough, partisan politics and bitter confrontations with the White House. Hoping to help themselves-as well as their presidential candidate, whoever he may be-in the upcoming elections, the Democrats will be out to portray Ford...
...intervening in Africa-even though the trip had been planned for several months. In answer to his critics, the Prime Minister twice told Castro that Canada did not believe in foreign intervention, specifically in Angola. Nonetheless, the two leaders were careful to prevent the issue from souring the diplomatic mood. Said Trudeau: "It was obvious to me that Premier Castro had made his decision [to intervene] with a great deal of thought and feeling...
That attitude typified the resigned mood of most Detroiters last week as the city-the largest yet to start court-ordered busing-put its plan into effect. Indeed, for Detroit, which suffered one of the nation's worst riots in 1967, the first week of forced busing was remarkably peaceful. Although a few minor demonstrations were held by antibusing groups, there were no serious incidents in the schools or along the bus routes...
Elementalism is the recurrent mood of Still's paintings. Many abstract-expressionist canvases allude, directly or not, to landscape. No American artist, however, has so consistently dealt with epic landscape as North Dakota Emigré Still. He is not, of course, a literal landscapist (sky at top, earth below). Yet there is every reason to see in his work a splendid addition to the romantic tradition of landscape, as practiced in Europe from Turner to Van Gogh and in 19th century America by the Hudson River School: a sense of vast, brooding presences, a pantheistic immanence, flickering with energy...