Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of just how different student-faculty relations were before the supposed watershed of the late 60s. The image of a "golden age" of faculty involvement with students was conjured up in a 1973 Washington Post article written by a 1958 graduate returning to Cambridge to sample the mood on campus. "In my day at Adams House," Stephen Isaacs observed, "any day at lunch or dinner in the House, all the tutors and many professors would be there, eating with the students, counseling them, joking with them. In effect teaching them. For all practical purposes, this aspect of the House...
With South Viet Nam's territory shrinking daily, Photographers Mark Godfrey and Dirck Halstead, who have traveled to the front in Indochina by Jeep, taxi and helicopter in the past, now found the story-and the war-coming to them in Saigon. The fatalistic, enervating mood of defeat they found there contrasted sharply with the elan of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong victors in Danang, captured in an exclusive series of behind-the-lines shots in this issue by the Iranian photographer Abbas...
Says White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, the keeper of Ford's revolving door to the Oval Office: "You can gain a lot from reading and thinking, but you're more likely to acquire a sense of the mood of the country by meeting with people. It's important that the President have a sense not only of the intellectual content of an issue, but also be exposed to its intensity...
...West. The area's mood is one of cautious optimism hedged with severe reservations. Some consumer-goods companies and conglomerates that have had freezes on hiring are now beginning to take on a few more workers. Total employment is rising in California, though still declining nationwide. Tourist businesses are flourishing because of a trend to vacation in the U.S. instead of overseas. Housing starts remain low, and 40% of the carpenters in San Diego are unemployed, but increasing demand for mortgages indicates a bottoming-out in that industry...
...students apparently were in no mood to listen to Hornig's reasoning. While about 40 protesters remained inside University Hall, 150 blacks manned a picket line outside. In a separate line, farther away from the building, some 300 white students marched in support of the minority students. Inside, the polite and well organized students gave the deans sandwiches; in return, just as if it were friendly competition, the deans took the students' phone calls...