Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago, nothing would have been more amicable than a meeting between President Ford and Republican Senators. But last week, when nine members of the Senate's conservative steering committee were ushered into the Oval Office, the mood was solemn. The Senators, led by Idaho's James McClure, were there to deliver, in effect, an ultimatum. Stop your leftward slide, they warned the President, or we will stop supporting...
...national nightmare is over." For one of Washington's top freelance photographers, Fred Ward, the event had a particular impact. Says he: "Suddenly the entire atmosphere changed. People who hadn't smiled in years were smiling-everyone was smiling!" Ward decided to try to capture the new mood in the capital through images of the happy, informal Ford household itself. The President took to the idea. Remarkably unself-conscious about being photographed, he granted Ward the rare privilege of following his every move for two months last fall...
That pessimistic picture was drawn from the latest TIME Soundings, a quarterly survey of the mood, temper and outlook of Americans. Soundings consists of a series of political and social indicators that were developed for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., the New York-based public opinion research firm. The most recent results were based on telephone interviews conducted in late January, tabulated and analyzed in February, with a representative sample of 1,046 Americans of voting age. Results for each individual survey have an error factor of plus or minus 3%; in estimating trends from one quarter to another...
PERHAPS THE MODEL U.N. line on the whole affair is the most accurate. At the group's college conference last weekend, certainly, the kind of mentality that led to all the dinners and expenses seemed so closely tied to the mood of the whole conference that what happened appears almost inevitable. The conference is held at what Model U.N. brochures describe as "Boston's elegant Sheraton Hotel," in a succession of conference rooms with names like Exeter, Commonwealth, Hampton and Kent, in the kind of enclosed, unreal atmosphere that big hotels are so good at breeding. Muzak drifts through...
...Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting, as one described it, "for a Chinese face to smash." The rebellious mood could turn against the government, which is detested by many students for its languor, inefficiency and corruption...