Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inequities are nothing new, but the lack of attention we're giving them is. The New Mood on Campus that the media touted in 1972 is now firmly entrenched. Most of the overt resistance to the United States's war-making machine is gone, or at least in hiding. The people-oriented movements it seems to have spawned--urging equal rights for women, blacks, the poor--are in hibernation, if not retreat...
...whole, however, Rees' sweet-and-sour strategy was approved by many Ulster loyalists, as well as by a Parliament whose mood has noticeably toughened since last November's Birmingham bombings, which took 20 lives. Commented the London Times: "The Provisional I.R.A. is of such a nature that it will be checked by one thing and one thing only-defeat...
Over the past few months some people have accused the press of exacerbating the nation's bearish mood. They argue that the public wants some basis for hope and faith. We agree. But we also believe that economic maladies, like others, require thorough examination and sound diagnosis as the first steps toward a cure. As Vice President Rockefeller put it: "Problems and opportunities go together . . . I have confidence that we are going to find the right answers...
...flagpole. There, billowing in the breeze, was a frilly assortment of coeds' panties and bras. Such pranks, common to college life of the '50s and early '60s, had pretty much died out in recent years with the advent of student protests, a more serious campus mood and the near demise of fraternities. But now, fraternities-and their high jinks-are back in full force on campus...
...fine woman!" exclaimed an admiring Sherlock Holmes onstage at Broadway's Broadhurst Theater as the redheaded villainess was led from the mayhem. Then he added quietly, "Yet her crime is commonplace." In the audience, another redhead was creating her own kind of fuss. In a reclusive mood, Katharine Hepburn, 65, hid her face from autograph seekers at intermission. When an amateur photographer tried to snap her, she shooed him away so fiercely that he fell. "I really thought she was going to belt him," said one impressed observer, who earned a growl from Kate: "Beat it, buster...