Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending of the longest war in U.S. history, with its bitter sacrifice of lives and money, undoubtedly deserved more of a tribute. But the American public was obviously in no mood to celebrate. Peace had been promised so often that even now some people were not sure that it had really come, or would last. Others had been so emotionally numbed by the war that they found it hard to react at all. There would be no heroic memories to cherish?no Valley Forge, no San Juan Hill. And not many heroes either. As the nation last week observed...
Healing. For that reason, the mood in which peace has been accepted may be reassuring: no boasts of victory, no cries of betrayal. From the President on down, few Americans are making exaggerated claims?a refreshing change in style for U.S. rhetoric. In his eloquent press briefing (see page 13), Henry Kissinger remarked that "it should be clear by now that no one in the war has had a monopoly of anguish and that no one has a monopoly of insight." It is a recognition of the fact that in the future the U.S. will have to adopt a more...
...question is whether this conciliatory mood will last. The policies the President is pursuing are bound to be abrasive. His budget, burying the high-reaching plans of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, will cut back many federal programs. Some of these programs are not working very well, and their disappearance would be a net gain. Others have the support of powerful constituencies in Congress and among the public, and they will not be surrendered without a fight (see page...
Macho's two squadrons claimed the highest sortie rate of American airmen anywhere in Southeast Asia. Each of their 52 daily "hops" averaged more than an hour, and most pilots lived with an exhausting schedule-between 14 and 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Now, the mood at Bien Hoa resembled early New Year's Eve when everyone is waiting for the boring annual office party to begin. Long lines of Marines stood listlessly on the tarmac waiting to board C-130s for transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building...
...this desperate point? A point at which the President who first bestirred student protest in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, would say shortly before his death, "...many Americans have begun to believe that solutions do not exist. Many Americans have just given up." Lyndon Johnson would say in 1972, "A dangerous mood of despair and defeatism has come over America." This mood has not been missed among students whose every protest, upon which so many hopes were founded, has been ignored or beaten back...