Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City may be saved from officially defaulting after all. By the end of last week, the Federal Government had softened its stand against helping the city, and seemed in a mood to approve some $2.5 billion in loan guarantees or other assistance. The shift came after state and city officials had put together a program of new taxes, budget cuts, debt deferrals and bank and pension-fund loans to tide New York over the next three years until its budget is balanced. Said Treasury Secretary William Simon: "They are finally taking the tough steps that they have been saying...
...naturally like the W.C.C. political line. Then there are Protestants who favor the conservative Gospel preached by Billy Graham (see story below) and argue that the W.C.C. wants to convert the world politically, not spiritually. The Nairobi meeting will likely have to face whether these criticisms have merit. The mood is hard to figure. Three-fourths of the W.C.C. staff and 80% of the delegates have never attended an Assembly before...
After the game Harvard's players and fans celebrate in New Haven, and in autos, trains and buses going back to Boston. On the train, one group of former football players sings songs and drinks continuously during the entire three hour ride. The mood on Yale's campus is a bit more somber. Harvard students celebrating in Yale's dining halls are conscious of their laughter. The line at Morey's is not what it might have been, though several dozen people wait outside, huddling against their dates or spouses for warmth, occasionally calling to demonstrative Harvard fans, telling them...
...unearthly beauty of the scene--a graceful tracery of arching columns silhouetted against a deep blue sky spangled with constellations, with the sound of the waters of fountains playing gently in the background. Even the music, which all too often sounded like Masterpiece Theater fanfare, couldn't destroy the mood of timeless innocence...
Americans are in a skeptical, disgruntled mood-determined to cut back government spending, turning tough on law and order, unconvinced that women need more legal rights than they already have. In different locales and to different degrees, those were the main themes that emerged last week as voters went to the polls to take part in an off-year election that produced few surprises and no major power shifts...