Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Implicit in the mood is the conviction that should he be "diddled" again in Paris, yet another blitz will be ordered. If Hanoi does not resume the talks in the proper vein, says a source close to the President, "he'll turn it up full blast again." The U.S. expects Hanoi in particular...
...second message to Hanoi. It said that the Oct. 31 signing was not possible because of difficulties in Saigon and asked for a new round of talks. The Hanoi trip was off; Kissinger, startled by the depth of Saigon's apprehensions, left for Washington in a somber mood, conceding to Thieu: "We go along with...
Already he has created a mellower mood among Democrats. Although identified with the conservative Texas faction, he has pledged not to try to repeal the reforms that have given greater clout to minorities, women and young people. He announced that he would fill nine of the committee's 25 at-large posts with blacks-not a matter of quotas, he insists, but recognition of the heavy black Democratic vote in November. He backed Oregon State Chairman Caroline Wilkins for vice chairman over the wives of prominent politicians. "I want a strong, visible woman," says Strauss, "not just somebody...
Pastoral and elegiac in mood, Duo for Flute and Piano is a chamber-music gem that should become a staple of the scant flute literature. In it, Copland returns to the comparatively simple harmonic and melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai! Copland cried out repeatedly at the recording session as he missed one or another of his own notes. A few feet away, Shaffer smiled sweetly back, having nothing to swear about, since she misses a note about as often as the sun fails to come...
...another undertaking; but Elaine May, both as a film maker (A New Leaf) and a performer, is someone from whom we have come to expect a kind of carefree inconsistency. By now it is part of her appeal. She veers effectively, if not exactly smoothly, through wild changes of mood and attitude, from very human comedy to sharp satire to a sort of urchin wistfulness. Her reactions to her characters are so complex and abrupt that the audience is always kept lagging a little behind and slightly off balance. It is an odd sensation, but pleasant...