Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to be in the mood for it" might be one caveat for the show. But a more appropriate one would be "You have to be below sixteen or above thirty-five, come from a strict up-bringing and not be going to college." We can easily visualize matronly ladies who come paying high theater prices expecting to see a play, who are shocked and involuntarily titillated by the uninhibited use of words they have only read in print and even then disguised by asterisks. But for a generation of college students nurtured on National Lampoon, Lenny Bruce and Cheech...
...1930s is not a period that lends itself easily to documentary; the portrayal of a clearly defined national mood is elusive; American tastes and attitudes fluctuated as often as the stock market. The decade was characterized by an erosion of faith in many traditional institutions, values and heroes; its political mood was a melange of extremism, tension and demagoguery...
...teachers were in a fighting mood when the strike deadline approached. Finally, after a marathon negotiating session, the union broke off talks, and the strike was on. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Samuel Adams later found five union leaders in contempt of court for continuing the strike-and imposed a $25,000-a-day fine against the union for every day the schools remain closed...
...encouraged educated workers and students to organize against capital, nor has their education given them more humanistic values than their less-educated blue collar counterparts. The threat of further downward mobility has thrown students back to a petit bourgeois outlook. At more exclusive colleges like Harvard, the "new mood on campus" stands as a polite metaphor for a new isolation and an increased competition for the few types of work that are still independent...
...Glass Menagerie is haunted by three dreamers locked together in a nightmarish existence. While one bemoans the horrors of a past which "turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it," another cynically observes the difficulty of averting any such horrors by mere planning. It is the mood of hopelessness, of pervasive melancholy, embodied in this dilemma which is captured and preserved in the Loeb production...