Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign policy-specifically to give his word on a matter. The worries are not so much directed at Ford and Kissinger as at the American system. A President may well decide he wants to do something, but even if he pledges to do it, will Congress in its present mood allow it? Kissinger believes he can cope with that question. Indeed, he believes that the Congress will be far more conciliatory on the new foreign policy issues. Getting Watergate and Viet Nam behind us may work some minor miracles in terms of mood, atmosphere and the ability to move things...
...mood at the State Department is to look more closely at Asia's population and industrial centers, natural resources, proximity to sea lanes, and American treaty commitments. By those more searching standards, several countries stand out as having great importance to the U.S.: Japan, preeminently; South Korea, whose independence is vital to Japanese security; the Philippines and Indonesia, which have vast resources; and Singapore and Malaysia, which together with Indonesia control the Strait of Malacca, the vital corridor for oil tankers traveling to Asia from the Middle East. Despite U.S. treaty commitments, Thailand and Taiwan are now viewed...
...dean of students, and some 900 City University of New York students demonstrated against Mayor Abraham Beame's plans to cut $69.7 million from the school's $702 million budget proposed for next year. At week's end, a dozen Harvard students, reflecting the mood of minority students on other campuses, began a sit-in at the administration building to protest the university's failure to set up a long-promised black cultural center...
Synthetic Desperation. Schlesinger and Screenwriter Waldo Salt collaborated previously on Midnight Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all desperation synthetic. The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority. This is a movie turned out by the sort of mentality that West was mocking...
...yarn-spinner and boaster, and Larsen is an excellent story-teller. From the opening scene, with Peer's fib of riding astride a reindeer-buck. Larsen reveals astounding acrobatic ability, vocal control, and stage presence, lending greater weight to Ibsen's lyrical verse. His versatility becomes apparent as his mood and expression age with Peer, who bears the scars of a weather-beaten, lonely old wanderer...