Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's deep belief, buttressed by his private polls, that he is in tune with a new national mood of conservatism. If the economy recovers as expected, and no foreign crisis intervenes, he will be an elusive target for all those yearning Democrats who have announced their own candidacy...
Nine months of laborious negotiations over a second-stage disengagement in Sinai have taught Egypt, Israel and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger one lesson. Gone is the euphoric mood of "guarded optimism" that surrounded negotiations at the outset and fathered fruitless hopes that a settlement was imminent. Last week as the talks intensified once again, the participants took extraordinary pains to deny rumors that the deal so long hoped for had been reached...
Chekhov could hardly have asked for a better autumnal mood than that of the opening at the manor house...
...only trouble spot in the concert was the Weber Trio in G minor. One of only three chamber works by Weber, this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard...
...Mood. Japan spends less than 1% of its G.N.P. on defense for its 261,400-man self-defense force, relying on the American nuclear umbrella and bases in the Pacific. "Security for Japan up to now has been like sunshine and water. When there is plenty, people take it for granted," said Michita Sakata, Director-General of the Japanese Defense Agency. "We want to enhance the credibility of our existing security arrangements, but Japan must be defended by the Japanese themselves...