Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade of assault from duplicity about Viet Nam to tax loopholes that it cannot get aroused over a little electronic eavesdropping, or the windfall of a few millions to corporate friends of the Administration. Eight Washington Post reporters tramping throughout the country in search of the elusive national mood discovered the Watergate bugging incident buried beneath other concerns. "Each of us," wrote Haynes Johnson, "could go literally for days of interviewing voters without hearing a single voter voluntarily bring up the Watergate issue...
Eleanor's special blend of hard-nosed politicking and motherly instincts can produce startling changes in mood and tone. In New Haven, she was haranguing a luncheon gathering on the implications of the Watergate bugging and burglary. "If we as a nation accept bugging a private office," she said, "we are conditioning ourselves to accept the same kind of intrusion on the precious right of privacy. Next it could be a law office, a business office or a home..." At that moment, she happened to look down at the dishes in front of her and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness...
...regional planning commissions to supplant the chaos of some 200 local agencies that now watch over shoreline development. In Washington, the voters will decide whether they should give controls to the state ecology board or allow local governments to regulate development. Governor Dan Evans seems to capture the mood of the West when he says, "Many of Washington's residents have seen in other states what can happen if development is not controlled. We're ready to stride forward toward some of the environmental measures we need...
...depredations of youth culture and the S.D.S., the noise of rock carmagnole and the further anarchisms of the "do it" ethic of Rubin and Hoffman. In the adolescence of 19th century Romanticism, the French Poet Theophile Gautier proclaimed: Plutot la barbarie que I'ennui. Now the American mood would reverse the formula: better boredom than that new barbarism. Says Sociology Professor Robert K. Merton of Columbia University: "What McGovern faces is a cumulative counterreaction to much of the mass protests of the last few years, and he is being penalized for them. He is representing the wave, in the short...
Despite all this, The Godson's elegiac mood and spacious sense of style reveal undeniably adept direction. Except for his Doulous - The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...