Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posturing, of a stance, of an attitude that suddenly becomes "in," rather than of a "new conservatism" in any political sense that students have begun to take different positions on issues than they took in the heights--or depths--of the sixties. As always, The Crimson reflects the mood well. The ideology of the sixties Left is still there, including all its most unpleasant features--support of the Vietcong, willy-nilly anti-Americanism. But the tone has become ritualistic and tired, bereft of exuberance...
...mood? Why is it now in to be "Left," but inactive and cynical? Certainly the atrocities of Watergate are part of the reason people have become cynical about achieving social change through politics. But Watergate cannot be the major explanation, because the new mood appeared before Watergate...
Extra Kilometers. Meanwhile, Sadat appeared in Cairo in field marshal's uniform to hold a press conference for 350 Egyptian and foreign correspondents gathered to report the war. In a remarkably relaxed and genial mood,* he gave one reason why he accepted the ceasefire: "I would not fight the United States of America. I fought Israel for eleven days. They would have run out of ammunition in two [more] days. I am not ready to fight the U.S." Although he criticized Washington for giving aid to Israel, Sadat praised the U.S. for taking a "constructive position" on peace negotiations...
...Peace Boulevard." The mood was starkly different in Suez itself. The Israelis hold three quarters of the port city. The residential quarters remain in Egyptian hands, but the port, the oil refineries and the suburbs are occupied by Israeli troops. On all the main boulevards leading from Ismailia down into the port city, there was evidence of bitter fighting. Whole blocks of apartment buildings have been destroyed. Many of them still contained bodies. Part way down the main street, now nicknamed "Peace Boulevard," two burned-out Egyptian trucks blocked the road. On one side were Israeli troops, some of them...
Soviet commentators, however, have stopped short of painting the Middle East dispute as a fracture in détente. Indeed, Brezhnev would appear to have as much riding on the policy as Nixon. One reason is that the Soviet leaders never perceived détente as an all-inclusive mood of relaxation, much as the West would like to see that develop, but as a policy option to be applied in areas of mutual interest. For the moment, those areas, in Russian eyes, are 1) the reduction of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe and 2) the expansion...