Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overriding mood of the White House was one of urgency?with good reason. So far, the Administration has relied heavily on the tight-fisted money policy of the Federal Reserve Board to temper prices. That policy has lifted interest rates to towering levels and thus attracted massive amounts of money out of the mortgage market, put an enormous strain on banks and credit, and generally slowed production?without even denting inflation. Growing doubt among investors about the Administration's ability to control the economy has sent the stock market into a frightening slump. The Dow Jones industrial average has plunged...
...everything seems to hve gone perfectly with this new book. And you can see that you've caught me in a mood of great emotional elevation: it's going to be successful, I feel I deserve it, and I love...
...title, translated from its rendering in an Italian regional dialect, means "I Remember." The movie finds Fellini once again back in his boyhood, in the same place-Rimini, a small seaside town-and in rather the same mood as in his earlier masterwork, I Vitelloni (1952). The film's framework is a full year in this small town, from the coming of one spring to another, although the true time of all events seems to be rooted in Fellini's imagination. The look of clothes, the political talk and the movies people go to see fix the period...
...final act opens with an abrupt change of mood. The actors no longer can ignore the currents of anti-Semitism in the town. In a tense, fast-paced scene, two young villagers break into the rehearsal hall shouting anti-Semitic obscenities. They torture an elderly man. There can be no more doubt about what's happening in the town...
...represented, one would hope, the first whiff of the Federal Government again beginning to function as it should. Right or wrong, Ford was making firm decisions. The CIA flap, however embarrassing, indicated that the U.S. was coming to grips with the realities of the world and the national mood. Henry Kissinger was being reduced from God to just a very good Cabinet officer. The fact that Rockefeller's $182 million was being laid out for scrutiny suggested there would be no sacred cows for a spell...