Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bigger danger for McGovern as the competition for the youth vote continues is a declining interest in politics as an avenue of change among many young people, despite the reform movement he has led in the Democratic Party. This has been detected by TIME correspondents, who sense a growing mood of introspection and a feeling that so long as the vast majority of Americans seem likely to vote for the status quo the youthful fervor spent crusading in a cause seems pointless. Whether McGovern, ahead on campus and trailing among youth elsewhere, gets the boost he needs to compete with...
From the moment he arrived in Moscow last week, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger was in a particularly jovial mood, summoning a wide smile to congratulate Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov on the Russians' surprise victory over the U.S. in Olympic basketball. Then he was driven to a big yellow villa in the Lenin Hills near Moscow State University to await the beginning of talks with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other top Kremlin leaders. Kissinger's early optimism proved justified. By the time he left Moscow four days later, he had helped reach agreement toward...
...Moscow and other Soviet cities with large Jewish communities, the education tax has created a mood of hopelessness and panic, compounded by the arrest of about 50 Jewish leaders and a spate of anti-Semitic articles in the Soviet press. The hopes inspired by the departure of 40,000 Soviet Jews for Israel in the past three years have been replaced by fear that the exodus will now come to a virtual halt. Nearly half a million Russian Jews may be stranded without jobs, since they are usually fired when they apply to leave the country. While the Israeli government...
They've wanted a long time for the city to make up its mind," Bowyer said last week. He speculated that the developers had renewed their construction efforts this summer in an effort to jog city officials and local groups into a more receptive mood for suggestions...
...later interview, Vellucci said he does believe that the tax-exempt status of Harvard and other universities is vulnerable. "I think the mood of the people is that they're fed up with high taxes. We're dealing with bread and butter. They (Harvard) are dealing with turning out artists and lawyers," Vellucci said...