Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than national, it had no direct relationship to the makeup of Parliament. Nor did it immediately affect Italy's national government, a rickety coalition of Christian Democrats and Republicans, with Socialist support. Nonetheless, as the first balloting since 1972, the election was a significant barometer of the national mood. More than that, it was a test of sentiment concerning Berlinguer's proposed "historic compromise," under which the Communists would share power with the Christian Democrats, who for 30 uninterrupted years have run the country. Evidently, an impressive number of Italians felt they had run it right into...
They were also criticized for no longer sensing or seeming to care about the national mood. Along with the Vatican, the party was badly embarrassed last year in opposing a divorce law that Italians resoundingly supported in a national referendum. The Socialists effectively summed up broad general feeling in a campaign slogan: "The country has changed but the power...
...President appoints and can dismiss the government (the Premier and his ministers) without consulting Parliament. He can dissolve Parliament without consulting the government if he believes it does not reflect the national mood or deems it unstable, but he must call new elections within 30 days...
...mood perhaps too wishful, some top bankers have insisted lately that the OPEC oil cartel's domineering note in the world economy would soon diminish. But last week Walter Levy, dean of U.S. oil experts, punctured that optimism. In a closely argued study, he contends that OPEC's balance of payments surpluses-and high prices-will continue disrupting the global economy at least through the early 1980s...
...become his first major book, Axel's Castle. ("Living? We'll leave that to the servants," said decadent Count Axel.) This departure exacted its melancholy price. As the decade ended, Wilson was falling away from old companions, from the "outlaw" life of the Village, from youth. The mood was summed up by his favorite cousin Sandy Kimball, a schizophrenic whom Wilson visited in an institution: "Life's all right...