Word: moods
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These were the major findings of the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly survey of the mood and outlook of Americans that began in May 1974. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc., the New York-based public-opinion-research firm. The analysts tabulated the recent results last week from telephone interviews conducted in mid-May with a representative sample of 1,014 Americans of voting age. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%; in estimating trends from one quarter...
...national mood, the indicator that evaluates the state of the nation's morale and confidence in the future, has made a dramatic turn upward. Some 29% of those surveyed were optimistic, compared with 19% in February...
...Kissinger's step-by-step talks or a resumption of negotiations at Geneva would be. For one thing, the reopening of the canal and the thinning-out of forces were undertaken by Cairo and Jerusalem without superpower prompting. For another, these acts instantly changed the Middle East mood. "I don't belittle this gesture," Sadat told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, referring to the Israeli move. "I consider it a very important act on the part of Israel. This gesture means we start the peace process again, although let us hope it is not simply a tactical move...
Time for Land. Although Sadat insisted once more last week that peace in the Middle East depended upon Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories, Egyptian diplomats indicated that they were in a mood to exchange more time for more land. In other words, Cairo was willing to extend the mandate of the peace-keeping United Nations Emergency Force in Sinai to the extent that Israel was willing to surrender chunks of the Sinai. That "time for land" formula appeared to be equally acceptable to Israel. Jerusalem's approach to Sinai negotiations, after all, has become "a little...
...first Annual Report to the Overseers, Bok, commenting on the quieter mood on campus, said that "students were more occupied with learning." He noted also at Harvard a new awareness of the interests of women and minority groups...