Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This change of mood has produced some alarmist rhetoric. In his book American Jews: Community in Crisis, Gerald S. Strober, a former staff member of the American Jewish Committee, predicts that current trends will make "life rather unpleasant for the individual Jew" in America, and that U.S. Jews are now entering "the most perilous period" in their history. Author and Playwright Elie Wiesel, survivor of Nazi concentration camps, claimed, in the New York Times, that for the first time he could "foresee the possibility of Jews being massacred in the cities of America or in the forests of Europe" because...
...years ago, in an uncommunicable mood. I fled the Currier House dining room with my tray, and settled down in front of a television set. The Lawrence Welk Show came on, and I watched, chuckling cynically, groaning as Welk sped his musicians through a medley of "old-a time favorites." Suddenly a voice came out of the corner of the room. "No don't laugh. Listen to the musicians. I don't like what they're playing, either, but, you know, they really know what they're doing. I turned and there sat this guy with a violin case resting...
...Several minutes later she asked another singer. "Do you want to do this a second time?" When one of the tenors stumbles over a passage he's done well before, she tells him. "You'll be better when you get more people singing." The cast is in a boisterous mood, and they're paying less attention than usual. Songs that were practiced in earlier rehearsals sound ragged and the singers are faltering over the words when they close their books. Ending the singing part of the rehearsal Krag addresses the chorus with the slightest hint of irritation. "If everyone could...
Public Apprehension. The White House policy of confronting, then compromising with Congress has its risks. If the Senate overrides the President's veto, it may not be in a mood to bargain with Ford. He could be bullied and disregarded for the rest of his term, with a resulting stalemate Government. The public seems to share this apprehension. A Louis Harris poll disclosed last week that only 39% of the respondents think Ford will "surprise people by being a strong and decisive President." Another 41% feel that he does not "seem to be very smart about the issues facing...
...adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington has changed since Rabin returned home. The U.S. is still committed to Israel, but the American mood (see box, next page) is for reduced military assistance and for compromise rather than confrontation...