Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What was the general mood...
...every sign of serenity in being President, doing business as usual and assuming an above-it-all posture. Indeed he appeared as isolated as ever, twice going out with only a few aides for Potomac cruises oh the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. For the moment, he seemed in no mood to explain himself more fully to the public, as some of his supporters had suggested...
...drive to the Petersberg Hotel from the airport, a few anti-Brezhnev slogans appeared. In general, the mood was calm. That may have been because the security precautions in Bonn were the most stringent in the history of the Federal Republic. At least 6,500 police and border guards patrolled the Rhine-side capital; Brezhnev's temporary residence at the refurbished Petersberg was surrounded by guards. Only three mass demonstrations were authorized by the cautious local police-one organized by the pro-Brezhnev German Communist Party (D.K.P.) and two by right-wing groups protesting the visit...
Which was not what Daniel Ellsberg, the Berrigan brothers, Jane Fonda, the black militants, welfare chiselers and the campus radicals and George S. McGovern desired. In that mood it was possible to justify means of opposition to the hostile encroachment of hated perceptions which under ordinary circumstances might be avoided." Quarreling with his own paper's critical stance on Watergate, Portland Oregonian Publisher Robert C. Notson painted past antiwar demonstrations as an apocalyptic threat to the country and the President's safety. "This then," Notson wrote, "was the context" for the Watergate bugging...
Harvard students for the past several years have dated their springs in reference to political events--the University Hall Spring, the Cambodia Spring and the Mass Hall Spring. Like high-schoolers who link their past romances with popular songs, each of those Springs evokes a certain mood, a sense of shared experiences, in the people who lived through them...