Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to collapse and President Ford were to propose any kind of U.S. air or naval rescue effort. But at the moment the rhetoric, and even the tired bombing and sit-in tactics, were misleading. The U.S. public, worried about unemployment, recession, inflation and energy, clearly was in no mood for a renewed argument over Southeast Asia. A question among Washington politicians was why the Ford Administration, fighting on so many fronts, was risking a new confrontation over the lingering...
...defense attorney has a craggy, hand some face that is the color of boiled beef. The deeply-graven lines from the wings of his nose to the outside of his mouth give him a simian look. You can usually tell how the defense is faring from the mood on William Homans's face. On a disappointing day he is irascible and his forehead is wrinkled. On a good day his eyes light up, and the lines outside his nose become smile lines...
Owens arrives at 1:40, ten minutes after the Commons' rally was to have started. Suddenly the crowd appears to be in a great mood. "The people. United, Will never be defeated..." surges out. As it empties out onto Park Drive the march is at last a reality...
Hemmed in by inflation, recession, the energy crunch and rising unemployment, middle-class Americans might logically be retrenching-or even digging trenches. In fact, the economic malaise seems to have generated an extraordinary happy-woe-lucky mood. As a laid-off Manhattan construction superintendent puts it: "I could have played out my savings and played safe, but I wanted to enjoy myself. This is the last great splurge." It could be called the Doom Boom...
...likely to remain so. The mood of the nation is skepticism, not credulity. The appetite for the cartoon is whetted. International and local tensions call for caricature, not portrait. Today, more than a score of editorial cartoonists answer that demand-and answer it with astonishing quality. These artists fulfill the difficult prerequisites that Historian Allan Nevins lays down for their work: "Wit and humor; truth, at least one side of the truth; and moral purpose." After 100 years, the nation that nurtured Nast can be proud of his successors...