Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston as nearly everywhere. Youthful gangs of blacks and whites engaged in several street fights last summer, and recently the racial feeling in the racially mixed neighborhood of Dorchester grew so dangerous that authorities closed a public high school for two days. Yet nothing in the city's mood or texture remotely prepared Bostonians for what happened there last week: two of the most vicious, apparently racial, murders in memory...
...strains: the notion of a constantly changing, often unwritten music, true to the tradition of popular folksinging in its lyrical simplicity and in the use of handcrafted instruments; and the notion of a music clearly reflecting the people's contemporary concerns, resonating in public aspirations and the prevailing national mood...
...first week as Secretary of State, he seemed determined to touch bases with as many of the 135 member nations as possible. When he led off the week with an address before the General Assembly, the mood was one of almost tangible excitement. Ushers noted with surprise that all copies of the text had been snatched up beforehand...
...never on weekdays as well as Sundays. Sullen crowds milled in the streets, and people eyed each other with suspicion. A placard outside the Zi' Teresa restaurant - closed by a strike, although there were no customers to speak of anyway - explained the city's unsettled mood. CHOLERA BROUGHT us TO OUR KNEES, it read, NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE COUP DE GRACE...
...short story is the perfect form - a fine dazzle, then a quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection of Cortazar's glittering tricky fiction invites the reader's eye to outguess the magician's hand. The mood that results is a profitless mixture of admiration and something not unlike contempt...