Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson Administration, it often seemed as if the best was barely good enough. Policies were regularly oversold. Part of the reason, notes Lance Liebman, assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School, lay in the "grandiloquent personality" of the President. His hubris found a parallel in the "national mood among the educated, professional, managerial classes," writes Liebman. They were persuaded that "technology had infinite capacity to produce the good life, at low cost...
From this mood, suggest several of the authors, there arose a crisis mentality that gave everything a life or death urgency. There was scant tolerance for moderate success or partial failure. Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government at Columbia University, argues that the crises of the '60s invariably passed through the same phases. First there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised...
...Exorcist must be what people want. It must have tapped some starved mood of the public. For it has already become a happening as heavy in the air as the last Stones tour, a mandatory movie experience. In Los Angeles the mob turn-out set off a traffic jam that slowed down half the city; the scramble for tickets at the box office sparked off a riot; the theater reported an average of 23 vomitings and fainting fits per performance, and promptly jacked up the admission price. And although a crew of nurses was hired to help the sick...
...winter is well under way-and most homes are still warm, virtually all factories are still humming, and the popular mood is swinging mercurially from aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation...
...music alone which won the audience. Dylan earned his first standing ovation before he played a note. Ten years ago, Dylan stood for a potent strain in the American mood, a libertarian current last exemplified in folk music as forcefully by Woody Guthrie. Today, Dylan stands for essentially the same thing; it is only that the times have changed so that people appreciate him more...