Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With her hopes for a feminist socialism and politically radical solutions, Adrienne recognizes that the rise of the Women's Movement and the political mood of the 1960s were closely connected. "Lots of women became involved with the radical Left in the sixties. But many, in becoming politically conscious, also saw that, as women, they were being fucked over. Any period of radicalism draws on women. During the sixties, women learned how to organize, how to work collectively, to speak out at meetings. We started out in demonstrations for the rights of blacks and against the war in Vietnam; women...
...campaign, it was revealed that some of his aides had bought a $50,000 paid-up life insurance policy for him from campaign contributions. Yorty shrugged it off, saying that he had no control over campaign finances. Voters, alarmed by the Watergate scandal, were in no mood to put up with campaign-fund abuses-and the insurance policy was probably the death blow to Yorty's chances...
...hospital and other institutions, and increase the wages of its Argentine employees by 100%. At week's end, Otis had not decided whether to bow to the threat, as did Ford of Argentina (TIME, June 4). The company did, however, evacuate all its executives and their families. The mood of those remaining behind in Argentina's international community was grim. Said one American businessman: "We've been getting threatening calls for months. Now we're listening to them...
...Organization of African Unity was founded in lofty (altitude 8,000 ft.) Addis Ababa in 1963 in a mood of high post-independence euphoria. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie described the O.A.U. as "a single African organization through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved...
...demeanor is better than "Everything Put Together." Like "Loves Me Like a Rock," the arrangement is simple, a twelve bar shuffle variation featuring the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. The wrinkle is a descending piano theme that begins and ends the song, as well as reflecting the song's lyrical mood...