Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Ministers will not be allowed into the discussions by the heads of state. Such a format, the Ministers reasoned, will allow their bosses to talk on a few key subjects and, with luck, reach a consensus. TIME's Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers reports on the new mood of Europe...
Prime Minister Den Uyl was coming under increasing public pressure for the bravely outspoken ways of his Socialist-dominated coalition government. In Eindhoven, a headwaiter summed up the new mood this way: "We are all pro-Israel, and there's no reason to hide our feelings. We are certainly not getting more pro-Arab now, but that's no reason for the government of a small and vulnerable country to go out flag waving in the world, praising countries we like and lambasting the others...
Undaunted by the souring mood of his country, Prime Minister Den Uyl told a Socialist Party rally that he realized the hardships his outspoken can dor on foreign affairs might bring. "I'm not applauding the earless Sundays," he said, "but I am very happy that so many take it in their stride . . . Look how beautiful a city can be without cars. This crisis is a good training for the things we will have to face sooner or later." To which De Telegraaf nastily commented: "Den Uyl's utterances are so much hot air, for Holland has virtually...
...only in the fact that they are "good risks." His job thrives on crime, not justice, and it is hampered by the "rulings of the late, unlamentable Warren court." He is the "Phoenician," creating a temporary oasis, a mirage, for the criminals who find themselves in a "desert of mood." He revels in a power which says, if his clients should jump bail, he can legally hunt them down and kill them. The most attractive element of the story is the hero's own first-person accounts. "My thoughts explode in words," Main exclaims. Elkin's recurring images literally explode...
...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...