Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Depression and more than ever, people have to steal from each other to live. The banker, of course, steals with his pen and his brain, and when the bankrobber steals from him, the banker inflates the amounts missing to get more insurance. The world is in a mood to make heroes, which it does with radio programs like Gangbusters or the election of F.D.R. (a broadcast of his second inaugural provides background for one of the gang's robberies.) Their families depend on the robbers to get through the hard times and members of the gang become like members...
French cinematographer Jean Boffety has helped give this world a pale damp beauty. Critic Pauline Kael compared the effect to the mood of Faulkner, but there is something lyric and almost painfully beautiful which could exist nowhere outside of film. There are wonderful details of gas stations and motor courts which recall Walker Evans, like the shots taken through screen doors to which bits of a painted bread ad still adhere or the recurrent presence of Coke bottles with their pale green glass, and Coke signs, even at the entrance of the state prison. But the effect of this carefully...
...magazines generally assigned reporters to do the reviewing. A movie was an event, like any other, and the same principles of journalism applied here. Therefore, first and foremost, the reviewer gave a plot summary, often in great detail; he listed the players, and, as it were, "reported" the general mood or impact that the experience of seeing the film was likely to convey...
Everybody is born a king, Oscar Wilde once remarked, but most people die in exile. In Wilde's mood of royal bitterness, Ellen Douglas has written a savage little novel about life's next-to-last disenfranchisement-that deportation to Siberia known...
...IMPORTANT for understanding the Strike to understand what might be called 1969's moderate student mood. SDS never won the allegiance of anything like a majority of Harvard students. What it did succeed in doing was raising issues and articulating concerns that moderate students felt more tentatively. Even moderate students talked about Harvard in ways that might have been unthinkable a few years before and less pervasive a few years later--for instance, with a feeling of student powerlessness before Harvard's "governing board of a few rich people," as Jay Epstein '69, a onetime member...