Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger. "They think that a couple of New York banks are going down the drain," said one banking source. Added a French banker: "We had thought the dollar would strengthen into next year, but now because of New York we foresee a weakening dollar through next spring." The apprehensive mood was caught by the French financial daily Les Echos: "If a chain of bankruptcies of [U.S.] cities takes place, the credibility of the dollar itself will be under full attack around the world, and the consequences could be incalculable...
...Still, a mood of optimism pervades the Betty Lee Beauty Shop. Its two rooms are bright and cheery, full of light and mirrors and colors. There is a screen that modestly shields from view women who are having their hair done, and it is covered with vinyl in a pattern consisting of the word "love" repeated over and over. Fuller bought the business from Mary Ryan, who had started it in 1938--no one knows where the name Betty Lee came from--and has thrived there ever since. She doesn't know exactly how she ended up being a hairdresser...
...expensive, though, and she very much wants to be a full-time painter one day. She likes the Concord Building, too, because it is old and has a nice atmosphere. It's kind of gray, actually, and Warner has to admit that gray dominates her paintings. "It's the mood I like to paint in," she says. "I like to play colors against a neutral background," She hasn't sold any of her paintings yet, but hopes one day to have a one-man show...
...that I have really felt closer to my God right out here in these fields, doing the kinds of things most of us enjoy doing." He even confided that he did not have a "burning desire" to be President. The next stop, at Indianapolis, brought a change of mood and a definite kindling of desire. Thundered Bayh: "I am running for the presidency to provide the kind of leadership that will stop telling Americans what we can't do, start telling us what we can do and show the way to get it done...
...marry. Even for a fable, that is a little too fabulous. Shakespeare was able to get away with the man-woman mistaken identity gambit because he imbued it with humor, poetry and a sly fencing of the sexes. But that is not the case here, where the prevailing mood is one of folkish piety...