Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal broke open late last week, a large part of our Washington bureau was mobilized to track down information for this week's cover story. Dean Fischer filed on the tense mood in the White House; Hays Gorey covered the Justice Department; and Senate Correspondent Stanley Cloud reported on the Watergate Committee's continuing investigation of the scandal. Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, meanwhile, returned to his home town of Greenfield, Iowa, to gauge the mood of some average citizens toward the Watergate affair and its implications...
...nation's capital was thrown into an apprehensive mood of intrigue and suspense. The suspect officials hired attorneys to defend them, held furtive conferences with federal prosecutors and shuttled in and out of a Washington grand jury room, dodging newsmen. In the White House, handsome young presidential aides, selected for their team loyalty and their vaunted proficiency in public relations, turned bitterly on each other, contacting newsmen in order to leak their suspicions about their colleagues. No one could be certain that his office neighbor might not be in the headlines next morning...
...outcome was disillusioning. A blizzard dumped nine inches of snow on the town, fanning the fires under furnaces and lighting up TV screens like so many firecrackers (schools were closed, and the kids had to do something). Few people were in the mood for walking or bicycling, and cars glutted downtown streets...
...itself in a shadow. No longer are scientists the public's great heroes or the beneficiaries of unlimited funding. Unemployment runs high in many scientific disciplines; the number of young people drawn to the laboratory in certain key areas has diminished significantly. Indifference to scientific achievement is the mood of the moment. Even such bold ventures as new voyages to the moon or Mars, construction of giant atom smashers, and journeys to the depths of the sea fail to excite a public that is half jaded, half doubtful of the future benefits of such extravagant undertakings...
...part, the turnabout came from an increasing awareness of the environmental ravages that seem to accompany technological advance. On a more philosophical level, the reversal is the result of a new mood of skepticism about the quantifying, objective methods of science. Moreover, there has begun to emerge, even within the laboratory, a new fascination with what traditionalists consider the very antithesis of science: the mystical and even irrational. Says Harvard Biologist-Historian Everett I. Mendelsohn: "Science as we know it has outlived its usefulness...